Teaching and studying is stimulating students and teachers. But both must be done with commitemnt and passion. This creates the basis for a symbiotic learning experience.  It creates a network for mutual knowledge and understanding for architecture and beyond.

“Teaching is useless unless you can learn from your students.” Martin Dansky 

Meeting students on eye-level and teaching based in experience seems to be a matter of course but too often architectural education drifts in the murky jungle of theorisation, research bubbles and dazzling presentations, too often students have to cope with tutors bare of any practical experience. Who teaches how to build a brick wall and never laid one single brick? Who teaches the design of complex buildlings and never was responsible for not even a hundred thousand pounds?

It might be possible to teach on the basis of collective exprience we call knowledge. But passion and persuasiveness stems from a lived and reflected knowledge which we call experience. My contribution is an effort to reconnect with the roots of the architects profession, with the traditional craftsmanship with an emphasis of our natural and physical skills.