The Brochure Series of Architectural Illustration, Vol. 01, No. 10, October 1895.: French Farmhouses. — John Shaqi
The Brochure Series of Architectural Illustration, Vol. 01, No. 10, October 1895.: French Farmhouses.Various
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The Brochure Series of Architectural Illustration, Vol. 01, No. 10, October 1895.: French Farmhouses.
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Architecture -- Periodicals
Among the architectural clubs thus far noticed in this column no
account has been taken of the clubs connected with the architectural
schools. Of these there are at present several which are doing good
and effective work, but the only one of which we have data for a
description is that connected with Lehigh University. The school of
architecture, as it is called, is not a school of architecture at all,
but of engineering (which is a very different thing), but its work
is none the less dignified or important on this account, and the
opportunity open to the students' club is in consequence a wider and
more serious one than usual if they choose to concern themselves with
artistic considerations.
Two years ago the first class in architecture graduated from the
Lehigh University, and since that time the classes have continually
increased, until now the course is a distinct one in the curriculum
of studies of the University. The objects of the department are to
provide a thorough training in architectural engineering, with such
additional studies in history, design, and drawing as must necessarily
accompany all architectural problems.
The first year is of a preparatory nature in which no distinctively
architectural subject is taken up, and in the second year the subjects
are those closely related to civil engineering, including a very
complete course in higher mathematics. It is in the third year that
architectural subjects are brought in, and with studies and lectures
on the architectural styles, smaller problems in design, sanitary
engineering, and theory of roofs and bridges, the full course is
opened for the fourth year, of steel construction in office buildings
(design and computations), specifications by lectures, thorough study
of ventilation, designs for roof trusses and girders, and hydraulics,
finally ending with a thesis design. To supplement this prescribed
work the students have organized the Architectural Club of the
University. The objects of this society are to distribute blue prints
to members from a growing collection of negatives owned by the Club;
to collect specimens and models of building material; to aid in
securing a students' library, and to hold monthly competitions in
pen-and-ink rendering, besides managing any of the affairs of the
architectural course in which the students as a body desire to act.
It is an organization for mutual benefits and already has made itself
felt, although only two years old.
* * * * *
After a summer of more or less inactivity, during which, in June,
its quarters were moved to 77 City Hall, where it is much more
conveniently located, the Cleveland Architectural Club has taken
up its work with characteristic enthusiasm, and already a vigorous
winter's work has been planned, beginning on November 14, with the
annual banquet at the Hollenden Hotel, followed by the yearly meeting
for the reports of officers and the election of new officers.
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