Special Collections Landscape Architecture Archive Show and Tell this Wednesday
October 31, 2016
Author: Lindsey Naylor
The Special Collections Research Center is organizing a show-and-tell of Landscape Architecture collections this Wednesday at the NCSU College of Design!
Landscape Architecture Archive Show-and-Tell
Belk Rotunda, Brooks Hall
NCSU College of Design
Wednesday, November 2
12-1pm
Stop by to view a sampling of highlights from our Landscape Architecture collections, including: Dick Bell 's design iterations and renderings for the Brickyard; Lewis Clarke's studies for his 1965 downtown capital plan; and Lewis Clarke 's careful precedent studies, design iterations, and funky renderings for the Fayetteville Street Mall. Other materials on display will include correspondence between faculty member Gil Thurlow and other leaders in Landscape Architecture such as Garrett Eckbo and Roberto Burle Marx; Bill Flournoy 's master's thesis ; modernist design at the Tallywood shopping center in Fayetteville; and recently acquired, detailed 1930s residential planting plans from High Point landscape architect R. D. Tillson. The show and tell is free and open to the public. We hope to see you there!