Holdings Fine Arts and Applied Arts Architecture Department Architects Examining Commit... Finding Aid Holdings Fine Arts and Applied Arts Architecture Department Architects Examining Commit... Finding Aid Title: Architects Examining Committee File, 1911-1947
ID: 12/2/6
Primary Creator: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Department of Architecture
Extent: 2.3 cubic feet
Arrangement: by type of material (correspondence, minutes and NCARB) and chronologically thereunder
Subjects: Architectural Examinations
Formats/Genres: Papers
Languages: English
Architects Examining committee File, including correspondence, minutes, examinations, reports and publications filed by secretaries James M White (1921-33) and Loring H. Provine (1933-44) concerning applications, examinations, registration, rules and regulations, administrative practices, committee meetings and related topics.
The series contains correspondence with the Sate Department of Registration and Education and the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards.
The 1870-71 University Catalogue and Circular lists the first architecture course and contains an announcement of the School of Architecture which was appended to the College of Engineering.1 In 1873 the Board of Trustees approved the School of Architecture.2 In 1893, the trustees approved curricula for architecture and architectural engineering.3
In 1931 the College of Fine and Applied Arts was formed. It included the Department of Architecture.4 In 1973, the Department of Architecture discontinued offering two graduate degrees; instead, it provided a new Master of Architecture degree which allowed options for subject specialization.5 In 1981 the Department of Architecture was redesignated the School of Architecture.6 The school offers a Bachelors, and a 2 and 3 1/2 year Masters in such specialties as architectural design, history, structures, and technology.7
1. Baker, Ira O. and King, Everett E. A History of the College of Engineering of the University of Illinois 1868-1945, Part 1, (Urbana), p. 290; Fourth Annual Catalogue and Circular of the Illinois Industrial University, 1870-71, p. 32.
2. Board of Trustees Transactions, 6th Report, 1873, p. 42; Ibid., 17th Report, 1894, p. 330.
3. Ibid., 17th Report, July 6, 1893, pp. 136-139.
4. Ibid., 36th Report, 1931, p. 186-87.
5. Graduate College Catalog, 1972/74, p. 44.
6. Board of Trustees Transactions, 61st Report, 1980-82, p. 325.
7. Ibid., 61st Report, 1980-82, p. 325; Graduate Programs, 1986-88, p. 78-79.
URL: https://files.archon.library.illinois.edu/uasfa/1202006.pdf
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