Response to Murray Fraser

Abstract

Murray Fraser and I agree about the importance of teaching architecture students a history of architecture that is global in scope. We believe in this as a matter of inclusiveness, as we teach students who come from all over the world, and as a matter of practicality, as we train global citizens, who may work almost anywhere. But above all, we do not believe in the inherent superiority—as both Banister Fletchers certainly did—of a line of descent that extends from the Greek temple to the Amer...