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North Carolina State University, College of Design Publications, 1949-2010

Title: North Carolina State University, College of Design Publications 1949-2010

The North Carolina State University, College of Design Publications contains student, administrative, and American Institute of Architects publications. Promotional literature, product design, research, self evaluations, and a numbered series of student publications are also included. The North Carolina State University School of Design was established in 1948 with two original academic components: the Department of Architecture and the Department of Landscape Architecture. In the late 1950s the school added a third degree-granting unit, the Department of Product Design. In its early years, under the leadership of founding Dean Henry L. Kamphoefner, the School of Design experienced a remarkable period of creative and intellectual development. Designers and theorists such as Buckminster Fuller, Matthew Nowicki, Lewis Mumford, and Eduardo Catalano joined the faculty and helped build a reputation for innovation and experimentation. Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe, Walter Gropius, Louis I. Kahn, Pier Luigi Nervi, Charles Eames, Marcel Breuer, and numerous other internationally prominent figures came to lecture, to conduct design experiments, and to inspire a new generation of designers. The legacy of imagination, diversity, and excellence set by this first generation has continued throughout the school’s history.

ArchivalResource: 13.15 Linear feet

http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/findingaids/ua110_200 View

R. Buckminster Fuller Papers

Title: R. Buckminster Fuller Papers

The papers of this 20th century polymath contain his personal archive the Dymaxion Chronofile, manuscripts, drawings and audio-visual materials relating to his career as an architect, mathematician, inventor and social critic.

ArchivalResource: 1200 linear ft.

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Eduardo Catalano Slides, [Between 1954 and 2001], 2002

Title: Eduardo Catalano Slides [Between 1954 and 2001], 2002

The Eduardo Catalano Slides include slides of the interior and exterior views of the Eduardo Catalano house in Raleigh, North Carolina. The slides also include views of the home after it was demolished in 2001 and of the "Floralis Generica" sculpture in Buenos Aires, Argentina, a gigantic metal flower with six motorized 20 meter high petals that open and close. The slides are undated, except for the ones of the "Floralis Generica", which are dated in 2002. Eduardo Fernando Catalano, (1917-2001), taught at the Architectural Association in London until 1951 when he was recruited as a Professor of Architecture by Henry Kamphoefner for the North Carolina State University School of Design. In 1956, he moved to Boston and taught at MIT until 1997. The Eduardo Catalano House, aka Raleigh House, aka Ezra Meir House, originally at 1467 Caminos Drive (now Catalano Drive), was built in Raleigh, North Carolina, in 1954 and destroyed in 2001. The three-bedroom house featured a 4,000 square foot roof which was a hyperbolic paraboloid, built of wood and only 2.5" thick. The roof was warped into two structural curves (similar to the shape of a shoehorn), with two corners of the roof firmly anchored to the ground and two corners soaring high into the air. Sheltered beneath the double-twisted roof was a square interior enclosed entirely in glass. The undulation of the roof provided openness in some areas and privacy and seclusion in others.

ArchivalResource: 0.14 Linear feet

http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/findingaids/mc00477 View

Catalano, Eduardo, 1917-. Peace Garden Design Competition : competition documents, 1989.

Title: Peace Garden Design Competition : competition documents, 1989.

ArchivalResource: 5 items : ill. ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82493871 View

Catalano, Eduardo, 1917-. General Motors design competition for dealer establishments : Program 1 / E.F. Catalano and B. Yurchenko.

Title: General Motors design competition for dealer establishments : Program 1 / E.F. Catalano and B. Yurchenko. [1945?]

ArchivalResource: 12 sheets of photostats : l8 negatives, 8 positives ; 35 x 49 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25194268 View