Ed Hurst
Well-known member
Your initial statement did say "first architect" rather than "professionally trained architect" and that has not, I think, been explicitly stated to have been erroneous in any of your subsequent messages. Further, I think one might reasonably say that much earlier indigenous architects were professionally trained, just according to different cultural principles and conventions. Finally, if this is a debatable area, perhaps the benefit of any such doubt should fall in favour of those groups who have suffered most. Please understand that I am not calling into question your motives here; merely indicating what the other view might be and that it could be worth explicitly and generously acknowledging it.