Thanks for this piece. I love what Roger Scruton has to say about architecture in his lectures and books, but I didn't know that Hegel was onto it as well (Scruton probably took some inspiration from there). As to responsibility, I think it's good that you brought up Weltanschauung; I think this is the only way forward. After all, so many things flow from there, so one way of going about it is to take part in this kind of exchange, and formulate the anti-thesis to the brutalist zeitgeist as coherently as possible. It's a long game, but still worth it, I think.
Thanks for this piece. I love what Roger Scruton has to say about architecture in his lectures and books, but I didn't know that Hegel was onto it as well (Scruton probably took some inspiration from there). As to responsibility, I think it's good that you brought up Weltanschauung; I think this is the only way forward. After all, so many things flow from there, so one way of going about it is to take part in this kind of exchange, and formulate the anti-thesis to the brutalist zeitgeist as coherently as possible. It's a long game, but still worth it, I think.
The morality-aesthetics-truth link is arguably more complex and ambiguous than you seem to suggest.
The basic thrust about the necessity for (reparative) action in architecture, however, is taken.