In spite of those who would champion its potential to enact positive social change, this thesis argues that it is seemingly impossible for architecture to exist outside of capitalist modes of production. By fulfilling an instrumental role, architecture ties itself to a commodity system wherein the difference between green roofs and gas chambers is merely one of morality. Questions of agency, ethics and value are raised and the suggestion is put forth that the only way to escape this servitude is for architecture to be put on trial, ultimately stripped of its functions, and condemned to a purely conceptual existence.