Many many memories came to me this weekend.
I re met some good fellows after such a long time... I built their houses in Spain and - in a way - I believe that I changed their lives and they made me happy forever...
For all those colleagues of mine and for myself, I decided to post this sutile and beautiful old text - so new and so true - of what our profession means... Please enjoy and remember to read it twice: once with your eyes, next with your soul...
"The architect should be equipped with knowledge of many branches of study and varied kinds of learning, for it is by his /her judgement that all work done by the other arts is put to test.
In all matters, but particularly in architecture, there are these two points:—the thing signified, and that which gives it its significance.
Neither natural ability without instruction nor instruction without natural ability can make the perfect artist.
Let him/ her be educated, skilful 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."
From the Ten Books of Architecture.
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