The Brochure Series of Architectural Illustration, Volume 01, No. 05, May 1895 | Page 5

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American School of Architecture, Rome.
A recent circular issued by the committee of the American School of
Architecture at Rome contains a general description of the organization
of the school and its work. On the twelfth of last June, at a meeting
held in New York, it was decided to found such a school, and a

committee of control was selected including the chiefs of the schools of
architecture at the different American colleges where such exist. We
give below some quotations from this circular which will be found of
interest.
The school is founded for the benefit of advanced students only, and is
designed to further the more disciplinary work of other institutions by
opening to young men, already well trained by them in drawing and
design, certain special lines of study, which at present can be pursued
only under great disadvantages. Beginners, accordingly, will not be
received. Such work is not suitable to their condition, and it would be a
mistake to encourage them to devote their time to it. But to the holders
of traveling scholarships, to those who have acquitted themselves with
distinction in the competitions for these scholarships, and to members
of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts of at least three years' standing, it offers
opportunities for the completion of their professional training which
students thus equipped will, it is believed, find of inestimable value.
Other well-accredited students may be admitted to certain hospitalities
of the school, at the discretion of the secretary.
Hitherto the holders of traveling scholarships have followed very
largely their own judgment as to their travel and study, and have
produced, as required, a certain number of carefully measured drawings,
which have borne testimony to the diligence of their authors, their
facility with pen, pencil, and brush, and the evident seriousness of their
intentions; but the work has necessarily shown no common purpose and
little consistent prosecution along carefully chosen lines. This being
their common experience, the past holders of traveling scholarships are
general in their approval of the