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someone says: “How can we teach
architecture when we have nothing to go by? We have no theories, no styles. It
is difficult.” It is difficult, or it is easy, it all depends. I would say: it
is impossible, or it is very easy.
It
is impossible if the teacher has no sense for the deeper meaning of
architecture and the student has no talent. You cannot grow roses from cabbage.
But if the teacher is a living artist, and if the student has natural gifts to
become a living artist, it is very easy. You hardly need to teach him. He will
find his path himself.
There is still one point in connection with
the educational problem.
We
speak so often about the lack of interest for architecture on the part of the
public. We have to get the public much more interested in our doings. It would
be helpful for our profession.
That
is true. But how can a person be interested in a thing he does not understand?
Well,
we have to educate him.
Someone
ask us: “What style is this building?”
We
say: “It is Italian Renaissance.”
Now
he knows it is Italian Renaissance because we tell him so. But it does not help
him very much. When he goes to the next building, we have to tell him again
about its style.
So
we have to educate him. We have to go with him through the whole history of
architecture; we have to explain the differences between the various styles,
their characteristics and their ornamental treatments. It is a hard task,
because there are so many styles and varieties of styles, a long list of French
kings and English kings and queens, and so on.
When
we are through, he says: “Well, now I can see myself this building is Italian
Renaissance. But there is one thing I cannot see. Why should it be Italian
Renaissance? The owner is an Irishman, the architect is a German, the
contractor is Danish, the workmen and the building materials are American, and
the building was built in the United States a few years ago.”
“Why
Italian and why Renaissance?”
“Well”,
we say, “it is Italian Renaissance because the architect thinks it is a
beautiful style.”
“What,
a beautiful style! What does it mean? Beautiful forms without any meaning! I
would not like to read a book filled with beautiful words without any thoughts.
No, sir! I do not care for your architecture.”
So
there we are. He was not interested in architecture because he did not
understand it. Now we have educated him to understand it, and he is not
interested at all. He likes to have thoughts behind the forms. He likes to have
logic. And there is no logic! Or here is the logic: I read in the paper some
time ago that a person in Detroit had the intention to build a building, and he
said: “I will build it in the Spanish Renaissance style because this style is
so little known in the Mid West.”
I
could say as well: “I have to go to San Antonio and make a speech, and I will
speak in Finnish because this language is o little know in Texas.”
There
is the logic! No, we cannot get logic in architecture as long as we use styles
which are only decorative, only empty ornaments which do not mean
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