The perceived absence of any such canon or framework for a theory and philosophy of architecture may have hindered informed architectural criticism in Pevsner’s day, but it has not stopped speculation and publications seeking to relate philosophy and architecture, including some accounts that are quite general and perhaps self-aggrandising. Questions concerning this relation only barely disguise others about what kind of person an architect should be. In his article on the former subject in a 1960 issue of the AIA Journal (34), for instance,
Gustave Mueller described the relations as fundamental and incontrovertible in that: “Both philosophy and architecture are edifying . . .