SCIENCE IN DESIGN.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25, 30 January 1912, Page 7

SCIENCE IN DESIGN.

DEGREE IN ARCHITECTURE. PROPOSED COURSE. The final report of the Recess Cohk mittee on engineering and architecture, submitted to the University Senate to^ day, contained the proposed course for a degree in architecture. The report was adopted by, the Senate, with slight amendments. The committee reported that it had met Air S. Jlurst-Seager, of Christchurch (the writer of the letter dh which action was taken), and also the President and Council of the New Zealand Institute of Architect*, and with their assistance and concurrence had drawn up a course for a dogred in architecture, which they submitted for 'the approval of tho Senate. Tha regulations provide that degree of Bachelor of Science in Architecture shall be granted after examinations concluded by the University in Architecture; every candidate for the Degree of Bachelor of Science in Architecture must matriculate, and thereafter follow a four years' course of study at an affiliated institution and pass the first and second professional examination* hereinafter prescribed; after passing matriculation examination, and uefore obtaining his degree, the student must spend at least eighteen months in practical work under a qualified architect in actual practice ; a student in architecture who has already obtained a degree in thi« university shall be exempt from examination in any subject in which he has already passed, and a student who has obtained honours in j any subject prescribed for the architectural course snail Aot be required to pass again in that subject. FIRST PROFESSIONAL EXAMINA- ! TION. . ! The subjects for the fjrst professional examination are defined as follow :—> Mathematics, as for Bachelor of Arts ; applied mathematics, as for Bachelor of Arts; physics, as for Bachelor of Arts; chemistry (inorganic), ,as for tnedical in- ' termediate ; geometrical drawing, as for engineering; freehand drawing, drawing i from the flat and solid, including drawing from, foliage, shading, tinting, and j memory drawing] perspective, the pre- ] par&tidoa of perspective drawings from plans and elevations, the preparation of j bird'e-eye views ; mechanical, drawing i (architectural), the application of geo- ] metrical drawing to the delineation of portions of buildings and structures, the setting out. of masonry arches, of staircases and handrailings, the drawing of i detail* of construction ; history of architecturfi and history in connection with ' the development of architecture, gen- ] eral knowledge of the history of civui6- j ed nations from the earliest times to the present day, considered with reference to it* bearing on architecture, Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, and early Grecian art, perfected Grecian, Roman, Byzantine, Romanesque, French, and English Gothic, Italian, and French and English Renaissance architecture, the ( influence of .historical art on modern design. SECOND EXAMINATION. The subjects for the second < professional Examination shall be :— One paper comprising : (a) Architecture (de«gn and theory), and (b) ornament and decoration (decorative schemes for buildings of different classes, decorative heraldry, etc.), building construction (as for engineering), strength of materials ' (as, for engineering), elementary surveying. One paper comprising : (a) Theory of planning and (b) hygiene. One paper comprising : (a) Architectural practice and (b) architectural law, architectural f drawing and design, elementary hydraulids and pneumatics, geology. f THEORY OF PLANNING. The definition of (a) "The Theory of planning, (h) hygiene," is supplied as follows : — Theory of planning, the es- 1 sentials of planning all classes of buildings; domestic, country houses, farm buildings, bungalows, town houses, ; flats ; ecclesiastical, churches, chapels ; Civic, town halls, municipal buildings, baths, hospitals, town planning; educational, Schools, colleges, libraries ; hygiene', drainage, water supply, ventila- j tion, heating, and Mghting. I Its adoption was moved by Professor R. J. Scott (Canterbury College), *bd tho report itself was^ referred to the Statutes Committee.