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The Roy Gussow Models for Teaching Design include 20 abstract models made from painted metal, painted cardboard, brass, wood, and plexiglass. Gussow created the models in the 1960s for instruction purposes. He used them to teach the vocabulary of the components of 3-dimensions and prompt students to think about form. They demonstrate how an extended point becomes a line, an extended line becomes a plane, and an extended plane becomes a form. These models also were used to illustrate the variety of fluid and dynamic forms that can be constructed using a stable or static right angle. Roy Gussow (1918-2011) was an American abstract sculptor and educator who is most known for his polished stainless steel works. He attended Farmingdale State College, originally intending to become a farmer and graduated with a degree in Ornamental Horticulture. After serving in World War II, he attended the Institute of Design in Chicago on the G.I. Bill and received a Bachelors of Science in Industrial Design. He taught at Bradley University and the Fine Arts Center of Colorado College before coming to North Carolina. Gussow was a faculty member at the School (later College) of Design of North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering (later North Carolina State University) from 1951 to 1962 (tenured 1960). He went on to teach at the School of Architecture at the Pratt Institute, Columbia University, and the Graduate School of Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania. Museums throughout the country hosted exhibitions of his work and many own his sculptures including MOMA, the Whitney, the Guggenheim and the Brooklyn Museum. Other scupltures can be found at locations such as the NCSU College of Design in Raleigh, the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History in Washington D.C., the Tulsa, OK and Harrisburg, PA City Halls, and the Xerox Corporation in Rochester, NY and Tokyo, Japan. Less