SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21446, 22 September 1931, Page 8

SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE

A COVETED DISTINCTION RECOGNITION BY BRITISH INSTITUTE. (Per United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, September 21. The School of Architecture at Auckland University College has been granted the full recognition of British architects. In a letter received at a meeting of the college council the secretary of the institute advised that the college’s three years’ full-time day course shall entitle exemption from the R.1.8.A. intermediate examination and that the five years’ course leading to the degree of bachelor of architecture shall entitle exemption from the institute’s final examination. The school has obtained this highly coveted distinction in the minimum period within which the required conditions could be fulfilled and remarkably soon after its foundation. Graduates will now be entitled to undertake post-graduate study, if they desire, at any other recognised school without previous examination. The only Australian school so far recognised is that at Sydney University. “ This recognition will be far reaching in its general effect upon the work of the school,” said Professor Knight in a report presented to the council. “It moans world recognition of our architectural education, as the R.1.8.A. final examination is accepted throughout the British Empire, the United States, and most European countries as a satisfactory qualification for the practice of architecture. I have received a letter stating that the Board of Architectural Education of the R.1.8.A. was highly impressed with the standard of work of the school. It will now be necessary for the Auckland University College to appoint two external examiners to represent the R.1.8.A. at the adjudication of studio work, and it will also bo necessary to send annually to London examples of students work. These drawings will be hung in competition with other recognised schools. The R.1.8.A. awards each year a medal for the best set of drawings submitted. It is anticipated that much benefit will be derived from this competition with foremost English schools,”