Repository: UIHistories Project: Course Catalog - 1892-1893 [PAGE 88]

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UNIVERSItY OF ILLINOIS.

building trades, as well as a considerable degree of skill in the use of tools, are all essential to the fullfillment of this purpose, and are therefore made prominent in the course of instruction.

METHODS OF INSTRUCTION.

The principal lines of technical study take up the theory and practice of construction, the history and esthetics of architecture, architectural drawing as now practiced in offices, as well as the various modes of finishing drawings, the use of the architectural orders; and the usual routine and methods of office practice, so far as this can be successfully taught in a professional school. This instruction is imparted by the study of text-books, with recitations and the solution of numerous special problems, also by lectures, as well as by the use of syllabuses instead of text-books, where suitable works do not yet exist. Engravings, photographs, models and sketches, are employed as illustrations. Drawing is practiced during the entire course, and whenever possible, the student is required or encouraged to produce original designs. Opportunity is also afforded for two years' instruction in free hand drawing, modeling, water colors, designing, and sketching from nature. Shop practice commences with the production of true plane surfaces in wood, and extends through joinery, cabinet work, turning, and veneering, to the making of models of architectural constructions to scale from drawings.

APPARATUS.

A collection of casts donated by the Spanish government, and another of casts of various architectural details from Lehr, of Berlin, belong to the departments of architecture and of design; models of ceilings, roof trusses, stairs and Schroeder's models of joints in wood-work and of construction in cut stone work, in the engineering museum. The department of architecture also possesses a large and rapidly increasing collection of engravings and photographs illustrating the history of architecture and art, and their practical applications in all ages. The collection is mounted on about 10,000 cards, 11x14 inches, and is classified in two parts, one for the use of the class in history of architecture, the other for use by the various classes in designing; both series are minutely subdivided to facilitate easy reference, and are always open for free use, thus forming a most valuable working library. The plates issued by the most important American architectural journals are to be found here. This collection is placed in one of the architectural rooms.