North Carolina State University, College of Design Annual Reports 1966-2008

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North Carolina State University, College of Design Annual Reports, 1966-2008

North Carolina State University, College of Design Annual Reports 1966-2008

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The North Carolina State University, College of Design Annual Reports (1966-2008) collection contains College of Design departmental and committee annual reports and annual plans. Several reports include accompanying memorandum. Most are typed reports, however few are pamphlets. Also included is one copy of the Student Publication of the College of Desgin, volume 33, 2008 and a floppy disk containing electronic files of the annual report, 1998-1999. Dates of the reports range from 1966-67 to 2007-08; reports from 1995-2001 are not 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.

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