Architecture Education Quotes

I cannot imagine myself fitting into the existing curriculum. I am too self-willed for that and have had my own very definite ideas for a long time, very different from the existing ways, as to how architecture is to be taught.

To me it was fascinating, the idea of going to university and studying a subject - architecture - that I had already faced in building some small houses.

Architects should be educated, skillful with the pencil, instructed in geometry, know much history, have followed the philosophers with attention, understand music, have some knowledge of medicine, know the opinions of the jurists, and be acquainted with astronomy and the theory of the heavens

Architecture students are generally given theoretical projects, often located at distant locations, and told to come up with a design.

I believe very strongly, and have fought since many years ago - at least over 30 years ago - to get architecture not just within schools, but architecture talked about under history, geography, science, technology, art.

Architecture was the last of the major professions to devise a formal 'cursus honorum' before its practice could be undertaken.

Architects have created this fake separation between creation and execution. You can see it in architecture schools, where the students look down on going to contracts classes.

Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time.