Architects thrive on fellowship
John Summerson opened his 1947 account of the history of the Architectural Association by describing its very antithesis: Charles Dickens' world of the early nineteenth-century drawing office, with the idle and pretentious Pecksniff masquerading as gentleman, scholar and artist, while living on the premiums extorted from pupils to whom he 'teaches nothing'.
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