Architecture as a practice and profession is seeking a role for its collaborative, synthetic, humanistic aptitudes in the face of the escalating dominance of technological influences. That role may be found by evolving into a "synphronetic" practice in which production and other actuated systems emerge from ethical systems. While drawing context from philosopher Bernard Stiegler's discussion of technology, his notion of hyper-control, and articulation of the concept of the pharmakon, this paper

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... will arrive at a definition and discussion of "synphronesis" and speculate on the future role of the Architect as a humanistic technologist.