Architectural Teaching

Teaching Architecture is an absolute privilege in the powerful words of other great Architects

Glenn Murcutt (Australia) on helping students uncover solutions through observation and design intuition.
“We do not create the work. I believe we, in fact, are discoverers.”

“To understand principles is like a toolset.” Advocating for teaching through core values, not trends or styles.

Louis Kahn - Encouraging students to move beyond function and embrace poetry in design.
“A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.”

“Architecture is what nature cannot make.”
— Teaching students that architecture is a unique human responsibility.

Zaha Hadid thoughts on empowering students to push boundaries and shape the world with purpose.
“You have to really believe not only in yourself; you have to believe that the world is actually worth your sacrifices.”

Norman Foster - Reminding students of their role as stewards of time, culture, and environment.
“As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.”

Peter Zumthor - on advocating patience, care, and craft in architectural education.
“I believe that architecture is a craft, that it’s not about being the fastest, or the most fashionable, but about thinking, doing, refining.”


Tatiana Bilbao - On the social power of teaching architecture, especially in the Global South.
“The most powerful thing we can do is educate.”