Otis Art Institute, a School of Fine and Applied Arts Maintained by the County of Los Angeles as a Department of the Los Angeles Museum, [1936-1937 Catalogue]
The instruction offered in the Department of Architecture and
tion is planned to develop the student's technical training, creja
planning, and historical research. The student is given wide p:
ing with pencil, pen and brush; he is taught the technique and
of working drawings, the methods of Perspective and the ma
ings in Water Color and Pastel. The Planning of Color Schemes
along with the factual information concerning materials, of
Construction for walls, floors, drapes and Furniture Design.
Historical research is encouraged in problems of Period Design
in usage in great styles of the past. The student develops
basic Renaissance styles on down to the styles of the present dbV
materials, and customs of national and racial style peculiarities
On the creative side, each student is encouraged to find him
through an individual style of expression, both in the drawings
tion, and in the solution of the functional problem of Architect are
Design. The planning must be practical for the time and ths
form, in the sense of final appearance in color, light and shad 3,
ment must reflect a personal, or individual creation that goes
practical solution. Creative planning in the modern sense, a^
led to see, is based on functional or practical planning to a
fleeting the individuality of the designer, and the mode of his t^njie
INTERIOR DECORATION
