Things you needed to commence architectural training in 1962

Kingston College of Art Architecture graduate Stephen Finch has provided a photograph and list of the ‘tools of the trade’ required to be an Architecture student when he began his studies at Knights Park in 1962. All items original:

• Double elephant composition drawing board. (Stand supplied by KSA)
• Ebony/ Mahoghany T Square.
• Stabiloid adjustable set square.
• Staedtler Mars 780 clutch pencil.
• Swiss pencil pointer.
• Harling London set of geometrical instruments.
• Set of Graphos pens and nibs.
• Hall Harding imperial scale. (Metric change over not until 1968).
• Aristo-Scholar VS slide rule.
• Set of french curves.
• A History of Architecture by Sir Bannister Fletcher. Seventeenth edition.1961.
• Mitchell’s Elementary Building Construction. Twenty-third Edition. 1961.
• Mitchell’s Advanced Building Construction – The Structure.
• Mitchell’s Advanced Building Construction – Components, Services and Finishes.
• Introduction to Structural Mechanics by Trefor J Renolds and Lewis E Kent. Fourth Edition. 1961.
• Applied Lettering by Maurice Ward.

Also but not included in photo:

• Oatmeal Draughtsman Overall/ Coat with waist tie – not included in photo.
• Lockable metal equipment storage box – not included in photo.

Photo: Stephen Finch 2015