Even an online interactive Romanarchitecture class that is worthy of Yale is not Yale for one reason: its students are not graduates of Yale University.
Councillor Bryan Chalker - heritage champion of a city famed for Roman and Georgian architecture - said the 1920s structure was historically important.
The likes of Dubrovnik, Split, Zadar and Rovinj have added a new range of hotels and restaurants to their already attractive Venetian- and Roman-era architecture, and the Adriatic waters are now alive with yachts.
That rule certainly applies to Robin Standefer and Stephen Alesch, the dark-haired New Yorker and blond Californian behind the in-demand architecture-and-design firm Roman and Williams.