Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1878 [PAGE 145]

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145 Drawing is practiced throughout the course, and, as far as possible, original work is executed. Drawing from casts and modeling in clay, give facility in sketching details and correct knowledge of form. In shop practice, designs are made by the student, to reduced scale, of roofs, stairs, etc., and worked out in wood. The course in mathematics, mechanics, physics, etc., is nearly identical with that in the other schools of engineering.

TECHNICAL STUDIES.

Drawing from Casts—Outline sketches and finished drawings in pencil and crayon. Modeling in Clay—From casts and original designs; weekly exercises in designing architectural ornaments. Wood Construction and Drawing—Construction and finish of wooden buildings, roofs, ceilings, domes, towers, stairs, etc. Iron, Brick and Stone Construction, and Drawing—Buildings of brick, stone and iron walls, arches, stone work, iron fronts, fire-proof floors, etc. Two lectures and eight hours of drawing weekly. Architectural Drawing—Preparation of full sets of finished drawings from sketches; weekly exercises in design of architectural details. Architectural Designing—Working out of original designs for specified project and preparation of complete finished drawings. History of Architecture—Daily lectures on history of architectural style; the construction and decoration employed; most important examples; ideas applicable to American architecture. ^Esthetics of Architecture—Three lectures and seven hours, designing weekly in ^Esthetics applied to architecture; laying out grounds, planning buildings for various purposes, grouping their parts, external and internal decoration, harmonies of color: general principles of decoration by form and color, for wall paper, hangings, carpets, furniture, etc. Estimates—Practice in measuring, valuing of material and labor for all kinds of builders' work and in making out full sets of estimates. Agreements and Specifications—Lectures on, and preparation of complete sets. Heating and Ventilating—The best modes of; fuels, and motion of air in flues.

SPECIAL E X E R C I S E S .

Specimen plates will be required of each student at the close of each term in drawing, to form a part of his record. All such papers must be on paper of regular size, except when otherwise directed.

SHOP P R A C T I C E .

To give a practical knowledge of various kinds of work, a full course of instruction is arranged, filling three terms, which all architectural students are required to pursue unless they have already had equivalent practice. The system is similar to the Russian system, so much admired at the centennial exposition, but more comprehensive, and applied to building rather than mechanical engineering. 10