MC 00190 Guide to the Matthew Nowicki Drawings and Other Material, 1944-2002

• MC 00190 Series 1. Drawings
• MC 00190 Series 2. Biographical
• MC 00190 Series 3. Artifacts

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Creator

Nowicki, Matthew

Quantity

9.0 Linear feet

Physical Description

8 flat folders, 1 document case, 1 oversizeflat box, 1 artifact.

Location

For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Special Collections Research Center Reference Staff.

Language

English

Acquisition Information

Transfer from the Design Library, 1986 (Accession 1986-0015), gift of William J. Conklin, 1997 (Accession 1997-0004), transfer from the Gregg Museum, 2008-2009 (Accessions 2008-0210, 2009.0135).

Processing

Processed by Claire Ruswick; machine-readable finding aid created by Kellie Strickland and Claire Ruswick, 2010 July.

Revised

2011 August, 2010 December , Finding aid updated to reflect additions to the collection by Todd Kosmerick, 2010 December and Tish Wiggs, 2011 August.

Scope and Contents

The Matthew Nowicki Drawings and Other Material contain architectural drawings and sketches, but it also includes his writings as well as biographical sketches written about Nowicki. Writings by Nowicki include a speech and several articles on architectural design. Documents written about Nowicki include newspaper and magazine articles, mostly composed after his death, and several biographical compilations of Nowicki's work. Along with Nowicki's drawings and sketches for the North Carolina State Fairgrounds and Dorton Arena, there are preliminary drawings that were done for Mayer and Whittlesey in 1950, drawings for the city of Chandigarh in Punjab, and a three-dimensional model of Dorton Arena. Dimensions vary with each drawing and sketch. The smallest are approximately 18 x 26 inches, the largest approximately 26 x 30 inches.

Biographical Note

Matthew Nowicki (1910-1950), born Maciej Nowicki, was a professor of Architecture and served as the acting Head of the Department of Architecture at North Carolina State College (1948-1950). He studied at the Chicago Art Institute (1922), the School of Design of Gerson-Warsaw (1925-1926), the School of Mehofer-Cracow (1927), and the Polytechnic of Warsaw (1925-1926). Nowicki was born in Chita, Russia and later married artist Stanislowa Sandeck. He designed the interiors of the Carolina Country Club in Raleigh and was a design consultant to William H. Deitrick for Dorton Arena. He also did consulting on a State Archives and Museum building (unbuilt) and was a member of the design team for the headquarters of the United Nations. He died in a plane crash over Egypt in 1950 while flying back to the United States from India.

Controlled Terms

1. Architects
2. Architectural drawing--North Carolina--20th century
3. Architecture
4. Architecture--North Carolina--20th century
5. Architecture--North Carolina--Designs and plans
6. Architecture--North Carolina--History
7. Architecture--United States--History--20th century
8. Harrye B. Lyons Design Library.
9. North Carolina State College. School of Design.
10. Nowicki, Maciej, 1910-1950
11. Nowicki, Matthew

Related Material

For more information about Matthew Nowicki, as well as the Dorton Arena drawings, please see MC 00227 Guy E. Crampton and William Henley Deitrick Collection . Additional photographs of Nowicki's sketches and models exist in MC 00428 Richard Burke Schnedl Papers .For digitized drawings of Dorton Arena, please see the Built Environment Digital Collection .

Access to Collection

Collection is open for research; access requires at least 48 hours advance notice.

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Mail

Special Collections Research Center
Box 7111
Raleigh, NC, 27695-7111

Telephone

(919) 515-2273

Fax

(919) 513-1787

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Matthew Nowicki Drawings and Other Material, MC 00190, Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC

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Sponsorship

This collection was processed with support from the Council on Library and Information Resources Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives program.