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Caption: Course Catalog - 1894-1895
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ARCHITECTURE. 41 principally employed in graphic statics, or by the mechanical engineers for measuring indicator diagrams. A Coradi's rolling planimeter of largest size, and a Coradi's polar planimeter, for the same purposes, but much more accurate in use. An Amsler's integrator for obtaining area, static moment, and moment of inertia of plane figures, especially of sections of columns, beams, etc. A Coradi's pantagraph of best construction-for reduction of drawings and maps. Boucher's calculator, Ram's slide rules, duplex slide rule, Webb's adders, etc. DESCRIPTION OF DEPARTMENTS. ARCHITECTURE. The department of architecture and architectural engineering occupies nearly the entire upper story of Engineering Hall, thereby securing drawing rooms lighted by skylights and ample in space. Course of Instruction. —The course of study in architecture prepares graduates for professional work as architects, draughtsmen, and superintendents of construction. The scientific principles of construction and its practical details, drawing applied to all purposes, the principles of design and their application to the planning and designing of buildings-, are therefore made especially prominent in the course of instruction. Great attention is also devoted to the history and esthetics of architecture. Instruction is imparted by text books" when suitable works exist, the solution of numerous problems, blue-print lecture notes and syllabuses, and by constant practice in original design, whenever this can be employed. The collection of plates in the architectural cabinet, with models and sketches, are used as illustrations and suggestions. Drawing and designing are practised throughout the entire course, and two years' instruction is provided in free hand drawing, modeling, water colors, industrial design, and sketching from nature. Shop practice comprises a series of pieces in joinery, cabinet-making, turning, etc., and models of structures from drawings. Apparatus.—A large collection of casts from Spain and from Berlin are jointly used by the departments of architecture and
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