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Panorama of the Duke Chapel. Image credit: Luca Vascon
Panorama of the Duke Chapel. Image credit: Luca Vascon

Building Duke

The Architectural History of Duke Campus from 1924 to the Present (2018-2019)

Project Lead(s): Sara Galletti, Kristin Love Huffman, Hannah L. Jacobs, Augustus Wendell

2018present

Building Duke is on hold while Professor Galletti is on leave.

Building Duke is a three-year initiative that will be implemented in three phases: data collection and organization (first year); data analysis and interpretation (second year); data output (third year). It will explore the conception, design, and construction of the Duke University campus as well as its changes and expansions. The project has been supported by successive Bass Connections Project Grants. Principal aims are to offer an historical narrative of the physical environment that the Duke community inhabits and to explore the desires and visions that have materialized in the making of the campus. This project is especially relevant at a cultural and political moment when physical space and its historical connotations are at the center of a heated public debate. The three-year initiative will culminate in a relational database of textual and visual archival material on the architectural history of Duke campus; an interactive digital 3D model of campus developments since the 1920s; a series of multimedia thematic narratives on the history of the campus; and a series of augmented reality tours.

Current Collaborators

Elizabeth Baltes
John H. Edinger
Brittany Forniotis
Valerie Gillispie
Dana Hogan
Amanda Lazarus
Kayla Marr
Amy McDonald
Mark J. V. Olson
Arial Strode
Victoria Szabo
John Taormina
Edward Triplett
Luca Vascon
Daniella Welton

Past Collaborators

Nathan Bullock (PhD in Art History '19)
Jacqui Geerdes
Rayhan Jhanji
Ashley Kwon
Manuela Maggipinto
Priya Parkash
Clara Pinchbeck (MA in Digital Art History '20)
Dryden Quigley
Sarah Riazati (MFA in Experimental Documentary Arts '19)
Kerry Rork
Abby Shlesinger
Holly Stam
Cassandra Stecker
Valerie Tsao
Maggie Wang