Cocktails & Conversations: Hugh Hardy and James Sanders

“Let me explain what it was like to be a student at Princeton. We were the students in the middle of all the change in architecture. Our professors were brilliant people in our own history because we were actually taught art history and taught about old buildings, while the other schools, the other fancy design schools, had abandoned all history because the past didn’t exist.

I think they wanted to lock up the library. Incredible though it may seem today, you could go to some fancy school to get credentialed and not be taught the history of architecture. The whole curriculum was talk without color. There was no color in architecture, which was reinforced by the fact that all the publications didn’t use color.” - Hugh Hardy