AN EXHIBITION OF SKETCHES 
MADE AT THE ECOLE DES BEAUX ARTS 
T HE present season of activities at the 
T-Square Club in Philadelphia has been 
marked by a series of special exhibitions 
limited both as to the number of drawings 
and the length of time they have been 
exposed to view. For each display the draw¬ 
ings illustrated a particular subject and were 
gathered from a special source or from a 
single architect. On account of its interest¬ 
ing character, as well as its brief duration, was 
it to be deplored that the last exhibition, con¬ 
sisting of twelve hour sketch problems made 
at the Ecole des Beaux Arts , was not more 
widely heralded before it opened, so that it 
could have been the more widely studied and 
enjoyed. 
As a part of academic training in architec¬ 
ture, the sketch problem has proved indis¬ 
pensable. It was introduced years ago in 
the School at Paris ; to-day every important 
college of architecture in this country an¬ 
nounces such problems to its students at 
frequent intervals. Pupils are required in a 
limited time to analyze the subject allotted for 
architectural solution, to discriminate be¬ 
tween essential and non-essential elements, 
and having formed their conceptions of 
design, to express themselves by rapidly 
executed drawings of a most epitomized sort. 
Such designs effectively bring out their 
makers’ own uninfluenced ideas. They are 
produced en loge , each student working alone, 
in a separate room, where he has no access 
to books, photographs, or other outside aid. 
Believing that a group of these drawings 
would form an exhibition of a unique and 
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