Students' Architectural Drawings

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Collection Overview

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ID: 12/2/18

Primary Creator: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Department of Architecture

Extent: 216.6 cubic feet

Arrangement: Chronological

Subjects: Aesthetics, Drawings, Graphic Statics, Roofs, Stairs, Students

Formats/Genres: Other Pictorial

Languages: English

Scope and Contents of the Materials

Student’s Architecture Drawings includes volumes of specimen plates of signed and unsigned student work in architectural construction, architectural drawing, esthetics, stone and iron construction, graphic statics, designing, roofs and advanced graphics.

Volume 19 contains color plates of Architectural designs by N. Clifford Ricker including floor plans and sectional views of buildings for which there is no front elevation (1870-72); from elevation of Corn Exchange, London (1872); design for a villa - front elevation and floor plans (1872); Exchange Building in romanesque style (1872); building in Gothic style (1872) and a plate of the Loggia of the Lions, Villa Borghese, Rome - not signed by Ricker.

This series also includes oversized original student drawings in ink, watercolor, pencil on paper and board. The project types vary as do the number of drawings for each and represent architectural design work from each decade. Drawings are identified by student creator and title and the table in the finding aid includes date, number, and size of drawings. Significant works include student work from James M. White from his studies abroad, Alberta Pfeiffer, Jack Baker, and Ralph Johnson’s architectural thesis.

The finding aid for the oversized drawings in this series is the product of NEH Funding for rehousing the materials into archival quality folders. University Archives and Library Preservation also provided funding and iSchool student practicum experience.

Oversize folders (boxes)  893, 894, and 895 contain poster board drawings that are ~ 41.5" x 41.5" and do not fit in map case drawers. These items are currently stored on top of a map case in University Archives, room 146.

Biographical Note

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.

Subject/Index Terms

Aesthetics
Drawings
Graphic Statics
Roofs
Stairs
Students

Administrative Information

Repository: University of Illinois Archives

Accruals: 1/29/65; 4/29/70

Processing Information: The finding aid for the oversized drawings in this series is the product of NEH Funding for rehousing the materials into archival quality folders. University Archives and Library Preservation also provided funding and iSchool student practicum experience.

Other Note: 15 Pages

PDF Box/Folder List

URL: https://files.archon.library.illinois.edu/uasfa/1202018.pdf

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