Thomas Fisher. "In the Scheme of Things: Alternative Thinking on the Practice of Architecture". 2000

“To remain silent about the values represented in what we do, either out of mistaken belief that professionals must remain ethically neutral or out of a romantic dismissal of all normative values, is to eliminate one of the main reasons for the profession’s very existence.”

Thomas Fisher, "How Haiti Could Change Design" (Feb. 2010)

"Public-health professionals do more than respond to disasters. In contrast to medicine, which, like design, tends to react to the problems that others present, public health puts much more emphasis on prevention, on changing the conditions that lead to problems in the first place. A public health version of architecture could do the same."

Thomas Fisher. "In the Scheme of Things: Alternative Thinking on the Practice of Architecture". 2000

“To remain silent about the values represented in what we do, either out of mistaken belief that professionals must remain ethically neutral or out of a romantic dismissal of all normative values, is to eliminate one of the main reasons for the profession’s very existence”.