The construction of Castro’s shopping mall dramatically changed the landscape of the landscape of the Chiloe Island's capital city. This fact represents the dilemma between the primacy of commercial equipment solutions, which seek to improve the services offered to the community, and the capability to recreate the identity and heritage values of local architecture. In turn, the case renders the low incidence of the planning tools that take care of the quality and history of the built environment (regulatory plans and environmental impact assessment studies), completely evident. This raises the following question: What should be the ethical responsibility of architects in an urban transformation that involves a significant impact on the local heritage. The article discusses the consequences of the architectural project in its action on an urban and natural environment, emphasizing on the problems associated with having an ethical responsibility of the architect, as a relevant actor in the production of built environments.
Salazar Alvarez, S. (2014). Towards an architect’s ethics; The Mall of Castro as an (a)typical case of our professional actions. Revista De Urbanismo, 16(30), Pág. 79–86. https://doi.org/10.5354/ru.v16i30.30884
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