What the architect should know

If you think that the architect is immersed in projects, diagrams and construction process, then you are very mistaken. At least the largest ancient architect Mark Vitruvius Pollion (I century BC. e.) made very harsh requirements for the architect. In his opinion, the architect should understand politics, know philosophy and music, have the concept of medicine. The architect must know jurisprudence and astronomy. Architecture, Pollion believed, this is the highest and last stage of the formation of the personality, to which a person approaches, being enlightened in all other subjects. Anyone who has not passed the listed course of sciences does not have the right to be called an architect. Now they often began to install a shower with the mixer is inexpensive. In the Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, the requirements for the architect are no less stringent, but more rational. According to the authors, the architect must understand chemistry and physics, know the construction mechanics, as well as jurisprudence, since at every step in his work he has to face all this.