The research discusses the impact of the events represented in the act of war that occurs on the urban system of cities, which leads to a forced shift in its morphology due to the collapse of important landmarks after the end of the event. The urban programs work with cities destroyed by wars with them in terms of commitment and liberation in a way that restores the identity to the place and is restore the life that was lost due to the war. Or urban programs work to forge new relationships whose basis is the new positions that emerged after the war, and which constitute a new history for the city. The new urban positions carry a double architectural value, because they express two important events: the first in considering it a distinctive landmark that was essential in the emergence of the city, the second, considering this landmark was affected by the war, which led to its demise or losing a large part of its elements. The research problem arose in the presence of the need to activate and revive the landmarks and sites on which the city was formed and the places affected by the act of war, in a way that the recipient can read the event of the war in the city’s architecture, and the research aims at reading the war event in the city’s architecture and the strategies that integrate the archaic sites with the sites produced by the event of the war.

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Ethics is related to human life in all its aspects, architecture is one of the most important fields of human life that affect and be affected, so studies must be exposed to the subject of the ethics of architecture in all its concepts and dimensions so that architecture can build its ethic constitution with a base of values and principles. After adopting unbalanced consumption pattern In dealing with available resource leaving environmental crises, people interested in humanitarian, environmental issues called for adopting a sustainable alternative development model that aims to achieve harmony between the developmental goals and sustainability of the environment, the sustainability concept of ethical values and importance of a discourse as a channel for communicating ideas and expressing them, made research adopting the concept of ethic discourse and its impact in the sustainability of architecture to show its importance. The problem of the research is that there is no clear cognitive perception about the role of the concept of ethic discourse in the sustainability of architecture and its elements, components. The aim of the research is to present a conceptual model for sustainable ethical discourse in architecture to produce a valuable architecture that will help build a society of human architecture with an ethic dimension.

In the light of the ongoing outbreak of epidemics, the Iraqi government ordered the temporary closure of university buildings and explicit compliance with social distancing, fearing increased infection rates among the large numbers of students. This closure, and the fear of infection, acted as an obstacle for users of educational spaces. To overcome this challenge, the study aimed to investigate the impact of educational space design on the effectiveness of social distancing to reduce the spread of epidemics. The shape, area, and furniture arrangement pattern were determined in the study of educational spaces design as a spatial configuration through the level of wayfinding and permeability. To better understand the relationship between the design of the current educational spaces and the effectiveness of social distancing, this study used a visual survey, field visits, and a quantitative method using a space syntax analysis. And the analysis was carried out on various models of educational spaces design in three elected samples of the buildings of the Technological University Baghdad, Iraq. The analysis values were represented in quantitative tables to illustrate the values of the space syntax attributes and charts showing measures of permeability and wayfinding in all the analysed models. The study results show an impact and a close relationship between the elements of educational space design as a spatial composition and the effectiveness of social distancing. This relationship is formed by the effect of the shape, space, and furniture arrangement pattern in changing the values of spatial space relationships. Furthermore, permeability and wayfinding as spatial characteristics depend on those relationships and control users’ circulation within the educational space, which is essential in determining the effectiveness of social distancing.

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