{"id":27156,"date":"2024-01-10T10:52:47","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T15:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/architecture\/?page_id=27156"},"modified":"2024-01-13T13:19:58","modified_gmt":"2024-01-13T18:19:58","slug":"nowicki-endowment","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/architecture\/partnerships\/ways-to-give\/nowicki-endowment\/","title":{"rendered":"Maciej Nowicki Polish Architecture and Design Endowment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n
Maciej \u201cMatthew\u201d Nowicki served as the first acting head of the School of Architecture and was one of Dean Kamphoefner\u2019s first appointees as faculty in 1948. He served in that role until his untimely death in 1950. In 1948, he and colleague William Deitrick designed Raleigh\u2019s J.S. Dorton Arena, whose iconic design influenced a whole range of famed buildings, such as Kenzo Tange\u2019s Olympic Hall for Tokyo in 1964, and Eero Saarinen\u2019s Yale Hockey Rink.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nowicki was a formative influence on both the curricular direction of the college, as well as its position as a school of design in the southeast. His untimely death spurred the creation of the first issue of The Student Publication<\/a>, in which prominent architect Lewis Mumford wrote: \u201cFew architects anywhere could match him in his adventurousness and gaiety, his open-eyed daring, his fertility of invention, his unflagging discipline, his deep sense of duty, above all, in the humility that is given only to great genius.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n