Show j jIl Il aI fi w S i ARCHITECT S t 4 Architecture is Ia one of the theS S most promising lines of endeavor en en- deavor today besides b being one S of the cleanest cleanest To To become an architect your boy can go to in an S architects architect's office Just office Just how he will be advanced adva t the e studies he will III have to pursue and why It ItIS is IS necessary for him to go go Into business for himself at a certain stage The stage The comparative ease with which this can be done BY C. C W. W JENNINGS S S S S ir AVE you ever thought about about i architecture as your boys boy's lAVE i lifes life's vocation If It not perhaps y you u would 11 I do look a little Into r this line of hu human an endeavor en en- deavor especially If your boy has given given given en you cause to believe that he takes takeso to o subjects mathematical nat naturally rally or orIs oris ors Is s good at mastering this branch of learning earning For there is today probably not a more promising or cleaner field of In Industry for a young man than architecture And what makes the opportunities In this profession profession for for profession it is exceptionally Is bright just now Is that the general gen aim In building is to combine art with utility and also the entire land Is reverberating reverberating ting ting Ing with the sound of hammers and riveting machines Not a few of the country's leading universities teach architecture In schools especially organized for this purpose Probably it would be well for your mr boy oy If it he has architectural ambitions to attend a good school of this his sort ort provided the family finan finances es permit But if it they will not do not note be e discouraged for more than one successful successful suc suc- architect has made himself such ere now by starting as an office boy In an architects architect's office And as an office boy or or minor clerk cl rk your boy would do well to start If he cannot be besent besent sent to a n reliable school of ture Of or course ourse as an office boy your boy will get only four or five dollars a week In actual money But all the while he will have his eyes open pickIng picking pick- pick Ing ng up the v very very ry simplest rudiments of the profession and pretty soon as of the mysteries of blue lue prints and compass and T square and triangle tri trl- angle ingle and box wood scale and thumb thumbtacks thumbtacks tacks begin to clear up his employer employ r will give hh him an eraser and tell him to clean an Ink finished drawing of Its pencil marks This may be within two wo or three months from the time the youngster starts t to earn his first weeks week's wage as as as' office boy Then within about six months months' or oro orso orso so o he i Is put before before a big table given givena a a. pen and bottle of f. f India Ink and told to trace over the lines of a drawing that have alre already dY been made In pen pen- pen pen- cil dl He Is also shown how to make prints blue the sh sheets ts containing th the plans of the structure to be erected that hat are given to the carpenters and other workmen on the job By Dy this time he ho h hits has s been told something about water coloring and d Is set to tomake tomake make mak a blue sky behind a finished drawing paint the house pink and to splash a vivid green over the grass grassIn In front Within a year from r m the tI time he entered the Office office-it ir ne as nas go got goton on on-he on he will be getting eight or ten dollars a week weak i Within another year he will be given given en a rough sketch of a floor plan and told to draw It out to scale This make detailed m means ans that he must a pl picture ture of the floor of a house allowIng allowing allowing allow allow- ing say a quarter-Inch quarter of space on the drawing for each foot of actual dimensions the floor Is to be It will not mit be long now till the boy and nd wl will know a lot about drawing begin to look forward to the tho time he will be called a draftsman for Inside of three years from the beginning he will be earning from 15 to 18 a aveck week and can probably take the notes given owner of a modest prospective by the dwelling and work out a fairly complete set of plans with plans with numerous hints and helps from the of course boss u. u I 1 Perhaps th the noy DOY D oy uy ut LULIe u some original Ideas of ot how a house ought to look and is able to picture This means that his Ideas on paper of a designer in he be has t the e rudiments him But anyhow he has acquired the foundation on which a real architect architect architect archi archi- Is erected and goes on for three thre more till Ull he can draw four tour years or cr r ordinary building and plans for any designs He lie acceptable make very yon as draftsman anywhere anywhere anywhere any any- will be getting where up to 30 a. a week and if It he has Studied be fore foreman an over hard he be may draftsmen if the office several l other Rever and earning double 30 Is a largo one week a B This is apt to b be the end of the of your boy unless un un- progress architectural o opportunities opportunities' B Tess no ho has utilized an any less themselves to get Into that may sho show for there are himself few business few hiS high salaried for positions In the profession profession pro- pro cases these come and in many Of other pull from political or Sa such a jo job as a's the superintendent course buildings in a large city dent of f school but buthe a year as s high as nays ays need not that gets It H J he man JUnn be a highly comp competent tent architect I Rather executive ability is the main requirement for he can hire good draftsmen and radical changes In design design de do- sign are generally made through outside outside outside out out- side sources Your boy has lIas got to get Into business busi busl noss ness for himself The requirements for doing this are practically nothing at all ail for all he needs eeds Is the few tew tools he Has lias long iong since acquired and mastered mastered mas mas- and a place to draw In If he ca can n get tet somebody that he knows Is ts g goIng ing to build a house to let him draw the plans and attend to the construction construction construe tion he will get a fee of 5 or 6 per percent percent percent cent of the buildings building's cost Then he may be given more pretentious work and so on till he successfully submits plans In a comp competition or otherwise for some l large rge public or semi public Institution and finds his reputation all made and his lis fortune In the making Between our office boy and the successful successful suc sue architect however there Is a along along along long course of studying that has to be bedone bedone bedone done besides what he has learned In Inthe Inthe inthe the office The time has long since gone by when an architect so-called so simply copied the plan of one house when called on to lay layout out another for the modem cry is for for more elaborate elaborate orate and original structures which require the most elaborate and painstaking pains taking detailed knowledge Your boys boy's course of study which can be gone through at nights and will be par partly par ly acquired In his work will include quite a complete knowledge knowl edge of or geometry and geometrical drawing as well as freehand and perspective perspective per per- drawing architectural and ornamental drawing pen and Ink rendering drawing In water color and from nature an extensive knowledge knowl edge of masonry and carpentry the latter Including ornamental Ironwork and sheet metal work wiring for foi electricity plumbing heating and ventilating ven yen painting and decorating Also he will have to be able to superintend the construction of the buildings for Cor which he has drawn The plans and this includes a a general knowledge of ol all that the contractor does Also he must have studied contracts and the building permits and laws of his particular particular par par- locality as they have to be conformed to These subjects seem a a somewhat forbidding array particularly when It Itis itIs itis is added that the architect ct pas has to know the strength and adaptability of ol olevery every timber or stone or piece of steel or Iron used but all hIl this Is no more than thousands of sU successful men have already learned and no more than your boy can pick up during the course of his work work work-if if he Is ambitious and has las unremitting application Let me add that he should make his beginning beginning beginning be be- ginning in a comparatively small smal office of flee fice rather than by being one of a score of In a large architectural archi arch I. I t company company In the latter he will probably develop facility in only one particular line Une of work and be kept at i it In the other case he will ril have opportunity to participate In every class of work And it Is the theall theall all round man who stands the best chance of making good In ture He can specialize If he so desIres desires desires de de- de- de sires after he has got a firm tion tion For there are architects who devote their time and energy on churches others who limit their services services servo ices to skyscrapers others to stores and lofts still others to dwellings and so on through the entire list of buildings But Bu it is invariably true that every successful specialist is one who knows vs from A to Izzard about everything there is to know of architecture architecture archi archi- in a general way And this he had sense enough to learn before he set about specializing r Copyright 1910 1310 by the Associated Literary Literary Lit Ut- Press |