Some schools are justly proud of their old traditions -- the School of Design can be proud of its youth. The School of Design is young and wishes to stay that way. But it is not this youth that can be measured by time that matters here. It is the youth of constant scientific curiousity and the youth of freshness that is consciously traced to its sources in nature that the School will try to preserve.

--Matthew Nowicki, School of Design Bulletin, 1950