The United Nations has written a set of "principles for sustainable and inclusive urban design and architecture" for architects to sign up to called the San Marino Declaration, which architect Norman Foster is set to launch.
Set to be ratified in the republic of San Marino next month, the declaration outlines a set of standards that architects and other built environment professionals should adhere to.
Declaration is Hippocratic oath for architects
"Next month I'm going going to be launching a United Nations declaration, which is the equivalent of the oath that physicians in ancient Greece undertook to uphold ethical standards," Foster + Partners founder Foster told Dezeen, referencing the Hippocratic oath.
"In a way, it's a condensation of the Sustainable Development Goals, which were also developed by the United Nations." Written by the Bureau of the Committee on Urban Development, Housing and Land Management, the San Marino Declaration will ask architects and other built environment professionals to agree to uphold a series of "principles for sustainable and inclusive urban design and architecture in support of sustainable, safe, healthy, socially inclusive, climate-neutral and circular homes, urban infrastructure and cities".
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Signatories to the declaration would agree to design buildings and cities "in a way that limits the use of energy, uses only sustainable energ...