Quote on Architecture by Martin Filler
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"Architecture was the last of the major professions to devise a formal 'cursus honorum' before its practice could be undertaken."
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"By 1970, the first stirrings of the revolt against Modernist orthodoxy in architecture had been felt, although it would be several years more until Postmodernism was widely accepted and made classical motifs permissible in high-style building design for the first time in decades."
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"Architecture was the last of the major professions to devise a formal 'cursus honorum' before its practice could be undertaken."
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"By 1970, the first stirrings of the revolt against Modernist orthodoxy in architecture had been felt, although it would be several years more until Postmodernism was widely accepted and made classical motifs permissible in high-style building design for the first time in decades."
"Before the professionalization of architecture in the nineteenth century, it was standard for an aspiring mason or carpenter to begin his apprenticeship at fourteen and to become a master builder by his early twenties."