It Is Better To Be

If Teaching Has Any Purpose, It Is To Implant True Insight And Responsibility. Education Must Lead Us From Irresponsible Opinion To True Responsible Judgement. It Must Lead Us From Chance And Arbitrariness To Rational Clarity And Intellectual Order.

But What If We Are Dealing With Fools?

Let Us Guide Our Students Over The Road Of Discipline From Materials, Through Function, To Creative Work. Let Us Lead Them Into The Healthy World Of Primitive Building Methods, Where There Was Meaning In Every Stroke Of An Axe, Expression In Every Bite Of Chisel.

Never Talk To A Client About Architecture. Talk To Him About His Children. That Is Simply Good Politics. He Will Not Understand What You Have To Say About Architecture Most Of The Time. An Architect Of Ability Should Be Able To Tell A Client What He Wants. Most Of The Time A Client Never Knows What He Wants.

Architecture Wrote The History Of The Epochs And Gave Them Their Names.