Title design for the Exhibit
At the beginning of summer 2020, I created a Mid Century Architecture walking tour that focused on the work of architects connected to the College of Design at North Carolina State University. While working at the NC State University Libraries’ Special Collections and Research Center and using their Rare and Unique Digital Collections I wrote a blog post for the Special Collections connecting the walking tour with the digitized materials, like blueprints and interviews. A few months later, I collaborated with Colin Keenan, in Learning Spaces & Services, we created a Virtual Reality exhibit entitled, Modern Raleigh: An Architecture Exhibit.
Modern Raleigh: An Architecture Exhibit highlights the NC State University Libraries' digitized archival holdings that represent the College of Design's significant relationship with Raleigh's residential and commercial landscape. This virtual exhibit focuses on the lives and works of five distinguished architects whose careers intersected the NC State University's College of Design--G. Milton Small Jr. (1916-1992), Eduardo Catalano (1917-2010), George Matsumoto (1922-2016), Brian Shawcroft (1929-2017), and Philip Freelon (1953-2017). Using photographs, video, and 3D modeling we hope to immerse the audience in the sights and sounds of these architects that helped define a half-century of Raleigh architecture. Perhaps you’ll even better appreciate the unique designs surrounding NC State University's campus.
This is a walkthrough video of the VR Architecture exhibit created by myself and Colin Keenan at NC State University Libraries. I'm the guiding and Colin recorded our walkthrough. This video was edited by the MTR Magic Key Collective.