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Caption: Course Catalog - 1890-1891
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44 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS. portant monuments of each style. Especial prominence is given to those ideas in design which might be useful and suggestive in the development of American architecture. Esthetics of Architecture.—Study of principles of esthetics as applied to architecture and allied arts; proper treatment of building materials and of the different portions of a building, as well as of its general form; problems requiring original designs. Estimates.—Methods of measuring builders' work; cost of labor and materials; preparation of estimates for numerous practical examples. Agreements and Specifications.—Study of principles and examples; preparation of a set of papers for letting contracts for building. Heating and Ventilation.—Heat, production, losses through walls; flow of air in ducts; obstructions; heating by fireplaces, furnaces, stoves, steam, and hot water. Ventilation, requirements and methods; application to numerous problems. Graphical Statics.—Elements; equilibrium polygon and its applications; loads and wind pressures on^roofs; typical forms of roof trusses; examples; determination of strains in members, sectional dimensions and details of connections at the joints; construction and use of graphical tables. SPECIAL EXERCISES. Specimen plates or tracings are required of each student at the close of each term in drawing or designing, to form a part of his record. These must be made in accordance with the materials and dimensions prescribed, and be finished as directed. SHOP PRACTICE. To give a practical knowledge of various kinds of work, three terms are devoted to a course of instruction, which all architectural students are required to pursue, unless they have previously had equivalent practice and obtain credit therefor. First Term.—Carpentry and Joinery. Planing flat, square, and octagonal prisms and cylinders; framing with single, double, and oblique tenons; splices, straight and scarfed; mitre, lap, and gained joints; through and lap dovetails; mouldings, mitres, mitre-box, and panels. Second Term.— Turning and Cabinet-making. Glue-joints; mouldings; inlaying; ornamental veneering; turning cylinders, balusters, ornamental forms, capitals, rosettes, vases, etc. Third Term.—Construction of portions of buildings or of complete architectural structures at a reduced scale; roof trusses, stairs, frames of wooden buildings, etc., made from drawings.
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