I wasn't just being cute in suggesting that clients often foot the bill for an architect's education.
Hans Knoll, an entrepreneur from a well-known German furniture-manufacturing family, and Florence Schust, an architect whose education brought her in contact with greats like Eliel Saarinen and Mies van der Rohe, married in 1946 and quickly turned Hans's small company into a design powerhouse.
For example, if architects come forward with the claim that they need to be able to control photos of their buildings or no one will invest in an architect's education, they'd better have some pretty compelling evidence to back up that claim.
Mr. Krylov, an architect by education, has spent the last 20 years resurrecting a whole school of ancient craftsmanship, whose skills had been long forgotten, to rebuild the Amber Room, an early 18th-century masterpiece lost during World War II, on its original site here.
By training, Mr. Xenakis was an engineer and architect; his musical education came late.
And I quoted the savvy chief architect of the education overhaul, Mike Johnston, a young Democratic state senator who has become a deeply admired figure among education reformers nationwide.
He was president of the league in 1986 and an architect of its education foundation.
Using a recent building project as an exemplar, Dr. Bavier shares her work as dean, and Mr. Bavier, as an architect specializing in education facilities, shares his planning and design experiences on several academic facilities.
The design's emphasis on pattern, surface, shape, materials and images express aspects of the architects' work and education that go back 30 years.
But this week, one of the last schools to be built under the BSF scheme was completed – and it shows that despite Gove's criticism of "massive overspends, tragic delays, botched construction projects and needless bureaucracy", not to mention architects "creaming off" education funds, the plan was actually beginning to bear fruit.
