Word: architect
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Born in 1853, Dorpfeld received an education as an architect. He was destined, however, to study old buildings, not to construct new. At the age of twenty-four he was sent to Olympia, and since that time he has been constantly engaged in archaeological investigation of every kind. He has conducted numerous excavations and has made careful and valuable examinations...
...effectively represented for architectural decoration, but this is a great mistake, for there are few objects which have not been used to beautify and enhance ornamental designs, and there is certainly nothing in nature so common that it cannot serve the architect in his work if he follows the principles of design and sobriety...
...closing his lecture Mr. Hastings spoke of the difficulties the architect has to encounter in obstinate clients and unjust criticism...
...subject which probably gives the architect the greatest trouble is taste. Depending as it does on the feelings of the different clients, it cannot fail to become mainly a personal question and consequently rest on prejudices. The remedy for this evil lies in the education of the world at large, for if more traditions were firmly stamped on the minds of the young, there would be fewer excentricities when they become more mature...
Throughout, in composition the architect should hold truth before him as the ideal which he is striving to attain, he should never resort to constructive trickery. A bad idea suppressed is a triumph for the good...