Excerpt from School of Architecture: The School of Architecture, Its Resources and Methods, Reprinted From the Columbia University Quarterly, June, 1900; The Instruction in Practice, Reprinted From the School of Mines Quarterly, July, 1900
But though the American schools of architecture are so far all very much alike, they differ considerably in the degree of importance they assign to these different subjects, in their methods of instruction, and perhaps still more in their equipment and in the more or less favorable circumstances of their environment.
The surroundings of our own school are obviously most fortunate. The most conspicuous feature among them is the city itself-a great museum of architecture, with full-sized models of almost every species of building, many of them of great excellence, and a very large number of them carefully based upon the best examples, in their details if not in their entirety. Those which are still in process of construction offer unprecedented opportunities for the study of the best modern practice. The Metropolitan Museum, just across the park, contains, besides its collections of painting and sculpture, innumerable examples of the applied and decorative arts auxiliary to architecture, while the Willard collection of architectural casts and models is, if not the largest, probably the best selected and the best arranged series in the world. The shops are full of the best modern paintings and of every species of artistic manufacture, displayed in their windows so that he who walks by may study them, and the annual exhibitions of the Architectural League illustrate the present condition of architectural design and the best practice in architectural drawing.
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