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In the first century BC, in the most influential treatise in the history of architecture Vitruvius acknowledged already. The breadth of the architect's craft and its interactions with numerous skills and areas of knowledge: ‘Let him [the architect] be educated, skilful with the pencil, instructed in geometry, know much history, have followed the philosophers with attention, understand music, have some knowledge of medicine, know the opinions of the jurists and be acquainted with astronomy and the theory of heavens’.³⁴ Vitruvius gives careful reasons why the architect needs to master each of these fields of knowledge. Philosophy, for instance, ‘makes an architect high‐minded and not self‐assuming, but rather renders him courteous, just and honest without avariciousness’;³⁵ this is a most valid piece of advice to architects even today.