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ARCHITECTURE 135 computing permanent and temporary loads on roof trusses, of obtaining end reactions, of drawing strain diagrams, determining sectional dimensions of members, and ending with the designing of joint connections. Numerous problems are solved, five different types of trusses are usually worked out, complete designs and details being made for one of wood and another of iron or steel, Bicker's Trussed Roofs. Bicker's Notes on Graphic Statics. Spring term, full study. Mr. MCLANE. Required: Math. 2,4,6; Theoretical and Applied Mechanics 1, 2, or 4, 5; Architecture 2, 3, 4 (except for students in civil and municipal engineering courses). 6. HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE.—Two terms' work, usually divided at the beginning of the Romanesque style. Commencing with the Egyptian and ending with the modern styles, a careful study is made of each of the more important styles, successively examining the historical conditions, the local and inherited influences, the structural materials and system, the special ornaments, and the purposes and designs of the buildings, with an examination of a few of the most important typical examples of the styles. Especial attention is given to any ideas that might be useful or suggestive in American work, and to tracing the gradual evolution of architectural forms. This study, therefore, becomes a very interesting branch of the history of human civilization. Two recitations and two illustrated lectures per week. References are made to numerous works, especially to Fergusson, Lubke, Durm, Reber, Gailhabaud, etc. Ridker's Notes on History of Architecture. Fall and winter terms, four-fifths study. Professor RICKEK. Required: Architecture 2, 3, 4, 8. 7. HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE (Details).—Exercises in drawing at large scale the most important details of the Grecian, Roman, Early Christian, Byzantine, Mohammedan, Romanesque, Gothic, and Renaissance styles. Weekly illustrated lectures in addition to drawing. Notes and Sketches. Spring term, four-fifths study. Professor RICKER and Mr. GUNN. Required: Architecture- 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 20. 8. ARCHITECTURAL DRAWING.—The term is devoted to the Five Orders of Architecture, and to Shades, and Shades
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