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.

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]