人文主义的教育

A SCHOOL OF HUMANISM

从长远的角度来看,建筑教育的现代体系只是在最近200年才出现,而建筑的产生要久远得多。我们或许不能宣称我们建筑教育的现代体系独具优势？因为在今天所保留至今的古代建筑中的每一个地方都体现着创新,精炼和美,与我们今天所能做到的完全一样。如同生活的许多其他方面一样，我们的建筑教育自20世纪以来或许只是让建筑不那么精英化。让更多的人有机会成为普通而称职的设计师。像米开朗基罗和克里斯托弗·伦这些伟大的建筑师，却从来没有接受过我们现在习惯想像的那种系统的建筑教育他们通过其他的方法进入到建筑领域一米开朗基罗通过绘画和雕刻,克里斯托弗·伦通过科学,他们受到的教育是欧洲文艺复兴的人文主义文化。

To put things in perspective, modern systems of architectural education appeared only in roughly the last two hundred years, while architecture as we know it has been produced for much longer than that. We probably cannot claim the exclusive intellectual advantage of our modern architectural education; ancient architecture stands today every bit as innovative, refined and beautiful as what we can offer today. Our architectural education, like many aspects of lire since the beginning of the twentieth century, perhaps produced a less elitist architecture, in the sense that more people have accesses to average but competent designers. Great architects such as Michelangelo and Christopher Wren were never “educated” in a systematic way in architecture as we would now habitualy imagine; they entered into architecture through other means -Michelangelo through painting and sculpture, and Wren through science. They were educated in the school of humanism of the European Renaissance.