Matthew Nowicki Drawings and Other Material 1944-2011

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.

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.

It should be noted that the authorship of many of the drawings cannot necessarily be assumed to be exclusively by Nowicki alone, and may also represent the work of Nowicki's wife, Stanislawa (Siasia), and/or others involved with his projects.

This collection is organized into three series:

• Drawings
• Biographical
• Artifacts

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

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.

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), gift of Seth Weissman, 2018 (Accession 2018.0411)

Processed by Claire Ruswick; machine-readable finding aid created by Kellie Strickland and Claire Ruswick, 2010 July. Updated by Phillip MacDonald, 2019 January.

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