III. Architecture
Architectural Drawing A1: The drawing and rendering of architectural
forms with elements of architecture. Nine drafting-room hours each week. Fee
$15. (Credit, 3 session-hours for B.S. in Architecture only.) Must be taken in
conjunction with Drawing A2 and A3.
Mr. Hunter.
Architectural Design B1: Architectural Drawing A1, or equivalent, prerequisite.—Problems
in design, with practice in drawing and rendering. Local
analytiques in preparation for the Class B plan work of the Beaux-Arts Institute
of Design. Required reading. Individual criticisms. Fee $15. (Credit, 4 session-hours
for B.S. in Architecture only.)
Professor Campbell and Assistant Professor Disque.
Architectural Design B2: Architectural Design B1, or equivalent, prerequisite.—Problems
in Design. The Class B projets, including one archaeology
projet, and esquisse-esquisse of the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design. Required
reading. Fee $15. (Credit, 4 session-hours for B.S. in Architecture only.)
Professor Campbell.
Architectural Design B3: Architectural Design B2, or equivalent, prerequisite.—Problems
in advanced design. The Class A projets, including one interior
design problem, and the esquisse-esquisse of the Beaux-Arts Institute of
Design. Required reading. Fee $15. (Credit, 6 session-hours for B.S. in Architecture
only.)
Professor Campbell and Assistant Professor Disque.
Architectural Design C1: Architectural Design B3, or equivalent, prerequisite.—The
Class A, and prize competitions of the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design,
and a thesis design. Not less than two years' work for a candidate for M.S.
(M.S. credit, 6 session-hours).
Professor Campbell.
Colonial Archaeology C1: Architectural Design B3, or equivalent, prerequisite.—The
historical study with measurements and the drawing of a work of
Architecture in Virginia of the Colonial or Federal period. (M.S. credit, 3 session-hours.)
Professor Campbell.
Architectural Construction B1: The technique of building construction, including
the study of materials and methods. Practice in the preparation of workings
and details. Wood, masonry, and steel structures. Two lectures and six
hours of drawing each week. (Credit, 3 session-hours for B.S. in Architecture
only.)
Assistant Professor Makielski.
Architectural Construction B2: Architectural Construction B1 prerequisite.—A
continuation of Architectural Construction B1, including the preparation
of working drawings and specifications for more complex structures than
those studied in the previous course. Two lectures and six hours of drawing
each week. (Credit, 3 session-hours for B.S. in Architecture only.) Architectural
Construction B2 is offered alternately with Architectural Construction B3.
Assistant Professor Makielski.
Architectural Construction B3: Architectural Construction B1 prerequisite—A
continuation of Architectural Construction B2, including a study of the
mechanical equipment of buildings, heating, lighting, sanitation, and electrical
work. Two lectures and six hours of drawing each week. (Credit, 3 session-hours
for B.S. in Architecture only.) Elective subject. Architectural Construction
B3 and Architecture B1 may be given in alternate years.
Assistant Professor Makielski.
Architecture B1: This course to be taken only after the second year will
be an assignment of additional professional work in the school according to the
individual student's needs as determined by his record by the faculty. A student
in excellent standing may elect cultural or technical courses in the College with
the advice of the architectural faculty. (Credit, 2 session-hours for B.S. in
Architecture only.) Architecture B1 and Architectural Construction B3 may be
given in alternate years.
Architectural Building and Equipment: The School of Art and Architecture
is housed in Fayerweather Hall, formerly the old gymnasium. The main
gymnasium floor has been converted into faculty offices and a large drafting
room for instruction in architectural drawing and design. Over the offices is a
balcony arranged for group criticisms, judgment of student drawings and small
exhibitions. The ground floor is occupied by two studios for water-colour and
freehand drawing work, the Fine Arts Library, a small classroom and business
office. The large classes have their lectures and classroom exercises in other
University buildings.
The library contains three thousand books and bound periodicals on painting,
sculpture, architecture and the related minor arts. Additional books on philosophy
of art, archaeology, the theatrical and musical arts are in other school
libraries. The best of American and European architectural and art periodicals
are subscribed to. A well-selected collection of slides and photographs for History
of Art lectures is available. The School owns an ample collection of plaster
casts and still-life objects necessary for teaching freehand drawing and water-colour
as well as equipment for instruction in various black and white mediums.
A gift by John Barton Payne of etchings by masters is owned by the University.
A permanent collection of architectural drawings and water-colours for student
inspiration is exhibited on walls. All the printed documents relating to Virginia
Colonial Architecture are on the library shelves and a rapidly increasing collection
of photographs on the same subject is being formed. Opportunities for
original research in Virginia Colonial and Classical Revival Architecture are
afforded by the neighborhood surrounding Charlottesville.
