Architecture alumnus Robert R. Taylor (1892), the nation’s first professionally trained African-American architect and the first African-American graduate of MIT, is the subject of an important new monograph from New South Books, released in January.
Researched and written by architectural historian Ellen Weiss, professor emerita at Tulane University’s School of Architecture and Planning, Robert R. Taylor and Tuskegee interweaves Taylor’s life with his life’s work — the campus of Booker T. Washington’s Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Alabama.
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Researched and written by architectural historian Ellen Weiss, professor emerita at Tulane University’s School of Architecture and Planning, Robert R. Taylor and Tuskegee interweaves Taylor’s life with his life’s work — the campus of Booker T. Washington’s Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Alabama.
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