THE ROBERT R. TAYLOR SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE AND CONSTRUCTION SCIENCE (TSACS)

First Accredited

African-American

ARCHITECT

Learn about our History

The Taylor School of Architecture and Construction Science (TSACS) is named after Robert Robinson Taylor, the first accredited African-American architect, and the first Black to receive an Architecture degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Taylor is credited with developing the school’s program in architecture and was often placed in charge of the day-to-day operation of the school in the absence of the founder and first President, Dr. Booker T. Washington. Robert R. Taylor designed most of the buildings on campus built prior to 1932.

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Tuskegee Interactive Virtual Tour (MI TU VCIT)

(Making an Institute, Tuskegee University Virtual Campus Interactive Tour)

MI TU VCIT is a historical tour that reimagines Tuskegee’s campus as it existed from its founding in 1881 to the death of Booker T. Washington in 1915. It is a joint, interdisciplinary project between Tuskegee’s architecture and history programs. The tour was completed by Tuskegee faculty and students in these areas along with the generous support of the National Endowment for the Humanities.