THE VIRTUES OF AN ARCHITECT

May the Architect be high-minded;

not arrogant, but faithful;
Just, and easy to deal with,
without avarice;
Not let his mind be occupied
in receiving gifts,
But let him preserve his good name
with dignity...
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

THE VALUE OF THE ARCHITECT

The Architect creates mans environment through his awareness and sensitive handling of
spaces that fit the scale of human experience. The resulting quality of the form-envelope
manifested as a structure or building gives rise to mans appreciation of beauty and order in his
physical world.

The Architects deliberation determine how people will be placed in relationship one to
another, how whole societies will work, play, eat, sleep, recreate, travel, worship, or in short how
people will live in consonance with their culture and national aspirations.

His objective is to bring order to mans environment to cause it to function properly within a
structure that is safe and healthful and to impart to the whole a beauty and distinction that is
appropriate to our time.

Virtues and Values of an Architect