Architects reject code banning participation in human rights violations

Arch Daily -  [The code] stipulated that all AIA members would refrain from designing spaces involving human-rights violations, specifically those “intended for execution or for torture or other cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment, including prolonged solitary confinement.” This would include execution chambers, interrogation rooms intended for torture, and “supermax” security prisons in which prolonged solitary confinement take place...The main controversy arose when considering whether or not the amendment would be an attainable goal for the AIA. Although the content of the amendment was never in question, its clarity and ability to be enforced were.