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Caption: Course Catalog - 1887-1888
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60 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS. SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE. OBJECT OF THE SCHOOL. The school prepares students for the profession of Architecture. For this a thorough knowledge of scientific principles applied to building, ability and correct taste in design, and a technical knowledge of the various building trades, with skill in the use of tools, are necessary, and areprominent objects of the course of instruction. The course embraces the knowledge of the theory and principles of construction and of the ordinary routine work of office practice, so far as these can be taught in a technical school. The technical instruction is given chiefly by lectures, with reference to text books, and is illustrated \>y sketches, engravings, photographs and models; practical applications are immediately made by students. 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, joints in carpentry and joinery, cabinet making, turning, metal and stone work, are executed; also models at reduced scale of roof and bridge trusses, ceilings, domes and stairs. TECHNICAL STUDIES. Elements of Drawing Lectures; designs, for specified problems; outline sketches and finished drawings from casts in pencil, crayon and charcoal. Wood Construction.—Frames, roofs, ceilings, domes, heavy frames for mills, etc., roof trusses, stairs, doors, windows, external and internal finish. Stone Construction.—Materials, mortars and cements, walls, foundations, stone-cutting, tools and modes of using. Brick Construction.—Materials, bonds, walls, arches, vaults and domes, centerings, etc. Iron Construction Uses and strength of cast and wrought iron and steel; usual forms and formulas for columns, lintels, girders and beams. Tinner's Work, Slating and Plastering. Sanitary Construction.—Scientific principles and practi-
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