The document discusses the importance of environmental ethics in architecture and construction. It states that environmental ethics are not yet a determining factor when making practical decisions about constructed environments in Venezuela. It provides examples of construction projects that lack contextual sensitivity and were executed despite evident issues and viable alternatives. The document also notes that environmental ethics are an active process being gradually adopted by civil society, though the idea is still slowly taking root in common sense. Environmental ethics become particularly important as environmental conflicts begin to directly affect communities and their quality of living.

1. República Bolivariana De Venezuela
Ministerio del Poder Popular Para La Educación Superior
Instituto Universitario Politécnico “Santiago Mariño”
GERUND AND INFINITIVES
Alumno:
Alexandra Barrios Contreras C.I 27.332.720
Escuela:
Ing. Civil
Profesor:
Lic. Suhaila Temponi Moncada
Maracaibo - Edo. Zulia, Febrero 2017

2. The ethics understand a
principal aspect of the
professional labor of the
architect, since the
products of his work, so
much I project as work,
they are founded on the
idea of alteration of the
natural environment and
of the cultural one on
which are inserted.

3. It is possible to affirm that in our national context the valuation of the
environment still does not constitute a determinant matter at the moment of
taking practical decisions on the production of constructed environment.

4. Being possible to exemplify this with countless cases completely
lacking in contextual sensibility, often executed in spite of
evident opposition to exist and viable alternatives to be known
for his accomplishment.

5. The worry for the environmental ethics is a process active and
increasing assimilated by the civil society, an idea that is taking root
slowly in our common sense.

6. The environmental ethics become particularly relevant, and generally
conscience takes furthermore of her, in the measure in which the
environmental conflicts begin to affect us of direct form. For it, it is
common that these conflicts are taken in account in the measure in
which his consequences affect directly the quality or living conditions of
a certain community.