Architecture Course (Swansea School of Art), 1909-1947
Start Date: September 1909 (Presumed)
End Date: 1947
Type: Art school course
Description: The course details listed for the academic session 1909-1910 are as follows:
'This course is intended for Architect’s Pupils, Builders, Masons, Carpenters and Joiners. Students will be prepared for the Board of Education’s and the Royal Institute of British Architect’s Examinations.
The Classic Orders: Their development and detail… etc., etc.
Modelling Course for Architects.
Advanced Students will also be enabled to make Modelled Studies of Ornament in bold relief from Casts; Modelled exercises in portions of Decorations from their own designs; the running of Mouldings in Clay or Plaster and details of the Figure. Demonstrations will be given in Carving and Casting in Plaster.'
Prospectus session 1946-1947:
Course No. 3
Preparation for the Examination of the Royal Institute of British Architects or to a College of Architecture
'This course may be taken either by articles pupils attending part-time lectures at this school or by students attending full-time with a view to entering a College of Architecture after a period of preliminary study. The part-time course may also be taken as part of a more extensive course of evening lectures arranged in conjunction with the Technical College, Swansea.'
Time Table, Architecture - Full-time course:
Monday: Creative Design, Lettering
Tuesday: General Art Knowledge, Interior Decoration, History of Architecture
Wednesday: Modelling, Architectural Treatments, Architectural Design
Thursday: Perspective in Architectural Drawing
Friday: The Orders in Architecture, Architectural Design, Perspective
Saturday: Interior Decoration
Course listed, with variations, as 'Architectural Design' from 1910.
Some of the classes held at Swansea Technical College.
Teachers
Teachers included Charles W. Gott
September 1909 (Presumed) - 1925
Teachers included Glendinning Moxham
September 1913 - 1930
Teachers included J. Herbert Jones
September 1926 - 1947
Teachers included Kenneth Graham
September 1946 (Presumed) - 1947
Sources
Prospectus of the Municipal School of Art and Crafts, Alexandra Road, Swansea.
Session 1909-1910
1909
p. 17
Swansea School of Art and Crafts
Prospectus 1926-1927
1926
p. 14
Swansea School of Art and Crafts
Prospectus 1927-1928
1927
p. 14
Swansea School of Art and Crafts
Prospectus 1929-1930
1929
p. 14
Swansea School of Art and Crafts
Prospectus 1931-1932
1931
p. 14
Swansea School of Art and Crafts
Prospectus 1932-1933
1932
p. 14
Swansea School of Art and Crafts
Prospectus 1934-1935
1934
p. 14
Swansea School of Art and Crafts
Prospectus 1935-1936
1935
p. 14
The School of Art and Crafts Swansea
Prospectus for Session 1915-1916
1915
p. 14
The School of Art and Crafts Swansea.
Prospectus for Session 1918-1919
1918
p. 14
The School of Art and Crafts Swansea.
Prospectus for Session 1919-1920
1919
p. 14
The Swansea School of Art and Crafts
Prospectus for Session 1923-1924
1923
p. 14
The Swansea School of Art and Crafts
Prospectus for Session 1924-1925
1924
p. 14
The Swansea School of Art and Crafts Prospectus 1913-1914
1913
The Swansea School of Art and Crafts Prospectus 1914-1915
1914
Citing this record
'Architecture Course (Swansea School of Art), 1909-1947', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/event.php?id=msib1_1213117263, accessed 06 Feb 2023]