NOTES chapter 3 note 1 William Robert Ware (1832-1915) founded both the MIT and Columbia University architectural schools. Ware believed that design was the main thing but not the only thing: the most important qualities in an architect were good sense and good taste. These qualities did not develop from a technical education but from a firm grounding in the liberal arts, critical reading, and writing. He embraced the scientific study of construction and materials in connection with the courses of civil engineering, as well as that of composition and design, and of the history of the arts. Ware maintained there was a pedagogical weakness in separating history and design, a strength in considering them together.