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Show Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery Paintings of Historic Buildings on Display the students learned much about the craft of drawing, design, materials, and perhaps most important, history. This exhibition is co-sponsored co-sponsored by the Graduate School of Architecture, University of Utah;' American Institute of Ar chitects, Utah Society; Utah Heritage Foundation; and the Utah State Division of Fine Arts. A series of prints from the drawings are available for purchase, Prof. Leek said. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays and 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. Saturdays. The Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery at Southern Utah State College, announced that "Facades," an exhibition of technical drawings representing a survey of historic Utah buildings, will be on display September 11 through 29. According to Prof. Thomas A. Leek, gallery curator, the drawings in this exhibition were selected from the results of two years of classes in design at the Graduate School of Architecture, Ar-chitecture, University of Utah, taught by Prof. Stanley Hallet. The problem given the students had the goal of teaching them to draw, while at the same time looking closely at traditional architecture. The students left the studio and went into the field to find the buildings they would draw. Once a building was selected, the students photographed it, measured those parts that could be reached, and made other direct observiations. Back in the studio, the facade was recoastructed in the form of a detailed pensil drawing, using the photos, sketches, dimensions and notes made in the field, sometimes supplemented by historical photographs and drawings. This meticulous pencil drawing became the basis for Uie pen and ink drawings executed in various weights of line that are seen in the exhibition. This long and often tedious task allowed the student time to examine closely every component of the building; to see how textures and shapes are organized, and how a lintel relates to window, which in turn relates to a complex facade. This intense study even begins to explain how the building goes together structurally. Through this undertaking, sometimes involving as much as 200 hours of work, |