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Today, we either take architecture too seriously, or not enough: in the former case we see it as either the destruction or salvation of society and the environment, in the latter it’s at best mere packaging and at worst shelter.

Architects should stop thinking they have to be pseudo-scientists or technocrats to be taken seriously. Our research is naturally in the realm of imagination, not tabulation.

Apparently, comic book artists have more integrity than architects.

But above all, the best thing is to draw men and women from the nude and thus fix in the memory by constant exercise the muscles of the torso, back, legs, arms, and knees, with the bones underneath. Then one may be sure that through much study attitudes in any position can be drawn by help of the imagination without one’s having the living forms in view. Giorgio Vasari, Vasari on Technique, trans. L. S. Maclehose, Dover Publ., 1999, p. 210 I'd like to offer two alternative

one of the qualities that make Old Master drawings both beautiful and interesting is their pentimenti

The word “academic,” with respect to the arts, has a variety of meanings and connotations today, few of them positive. Academic art is...

Our memory’s limitations and imprecision facilitate creativity.

on creativity and intelligence, artificial and otherwise

What more can be said or done about the classical orders? Maybe still something...

Much of the great art of the past was made in worse times.

The culture of classical humanism provides the firmest foundation for rebuilding a liberal architecture.