Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1884 [PAGE 29]

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33 4. Training in the Art of Design.—Correct taste and the power of designing necessary to make the indispensable things of life beautiful, form the keystone in the education of the architect. After a student can make a good set of drawings from a sketch or small perspective, a programme of conditions and requirements for a small building is given to him. This is followed by others, increasing in difficulty as he acquires power, and ending with the most difficult structures which an architect is called upon to erect, except; public buildings, which are reserved for the post-graduate course. In studying these problems, sketches at a small scale are first made and changed until satisfactory, great attention being paid to arrangement and convenience of plan. Prom these the student prepares a full set of working drawings neatly colored and shaded. Working drawings, similar to those made in architects' offices, are preferred to fine drawings, though as much time as can be spared is given to this branch of the art.

APPARATUS AND EQUIPMENTS.

The facilities for instruction at the School of Architecture are: 1. An excellent library. 2. The use of a fine art gallery, containing casts of sculptures, ornaments, and many photographs of buildings. (See School of Art and Design). 3. A good and rapidly increasing collection of models illustrating construction. 4. Tools and materials and instruction furnished in shop practice free of cuarge. 5. American, English, French and German architectural periodicals are regularly taken in the library. The new Chemical Laboratory was designed by the Professor of Architecture, assisted by students of the course. Many other pieces of work for the University have originated in the same way. A school house at Eankin, 111., was designed by an undergraduate student. It has given good satisfaction. Graduates are becoming well established as architects in several Western cities.

ARCHITECTURAL COURSE.

Required for the Degree of B. S., in School of Architecture.

FIBST YEAE.

1. Trigonometry; Projection Drawing-; Shop Practice; French. 2. Analytical Geometry; Descriptive Geometry and Lettering; Shop Practice; French. 3. Calculus; Shop Practice; French.

SECOND YEAE.

1. Elements of Construction; Advanced Algebra; Free Hand Drawing and Modeling. 2. Elements of Construction; Advanced Analytical Geometry; Architectural Drawing and Designing. 3. Advanced Calculus; Graphical Statics; Water Color Sketching.

THIBD YEAE.

1. Architectural Drawing; Descriptive Geometry and Drawing; Chemistry and Labora" tory Practice. 2. History of Architecture; Analytical Mechanics; Physics. 3. History of Architecture; Analytical Mechanics; Physics.

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