Tuskegee University

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.

[Read our History and Mission]

[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 histor 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.