Minutes of Special School Sub Committee, 1943

Scope and Content

Comprises of the minutes of meetings of the Special School Sub Committee, 6 January 1943 - 12 May 1943. Inserted preceeding the minutes are loose reports of the Special School Sub Committee, dated December 1942; the Special School Sub Committee's Select Committee: War Time School, dated 18 February 1942; the Special School Sub Committee's Select Committee on Post-War School, undated; the Special School Sub Committee's Select Committee on Post-War School and Refresher Courses, undated. Also included are Notes on Analysis of Incomeand Expenditure, 1925-1939, inserted following the minutes of the Special School Sub Comittee meeting, 3 February 1943; letter entitled Future of the School by Howard Robertson, inserted following the minutes of the Special School Sub Committee meeting, 8 March 1934; memos concerning the AA Schools and the future of architectural education: Suggestions to the Special School Committee, Tuesday 23rd March, 1943, by Arthur W. Kenyon, Notes re Architectural Association Schools by A.F.B. Anderson, dated March 1943, inserted following the minutes of the Special School Sub Committee meeting, 23 March 1943. Also includes Principal's Report to the Special School Sub-Committee of the Council on the 12th April 1943, on the proposal to introduce into the School Course a system of joint preliminary training for architects, master builders and surveyors, by Frederick Gibberd, inserted following the minutes of the Special School Sub Committee meeting, 12 April 1943; AA Special School Committee Report, dated 5 July 1943 and a report prepared by Mr O'Rorke for the Special School Sub Committee, entitled Preliminary Notes - AA Post War Refresher Course, both inserted following the minutes of the Special School Sub Committee meeting, 12 May 1943.

Arrangement

Minutes are arranged chronologically from the back of the volume. Minutes of meetings of the Editorial Committee 1936-42, the AA Journal Advisory Group 1953-4 and the Editorial Board of the AA Journal 1955-63 are also housed within the same volume, inserted chronologically from the front of the volume.