This essay examines how architectural education can cultivate civic responsibility through a renewed engagement with tradition and typology. Drawing on two pedagogical models—the AA’s “Architecture and Continuity” in London and Rome University’s “Project and Tradition”—it explores how each redefines “type” not as replication, but as a flexible framework rooted in cultural memory. Through contrasting approaches—Rome’s typological survey and the AA’s symbolic “exemplary situations”—both studios offer valuable strategies for educating architects attuned to historical continuity, spatial meaning, and the ethical dimensions of building within contemporary urban contexts.