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Unrestored, abandoned, right on top of the main freshman dining hall – here lies one of the most mysterious historical relics of Georgia Institute of Technology. Formerly home to the sole manager of Brittain dining hall, Daisy Daniel, this 1920’s apartment now serves as a martyr for Georgia Tech’s founding spirit. Beginning as a trade school in the late 1800s, Georgia Tech was a small, homely institution with a strong focus on passion in craft. Now, it serves as a giant in the world of technological education, more or less unrecognizable in form and feeling to the campus of decades past. For almost 100 years, Daisy’s apartment has sat as part of the east campus hallmark that is Brittain dining hall. It hangs above the heads of countless freshman passers-by daily. Yet having fallen into disuse, it’s completely unknown to the large majority of students – and permanently hidden from public view. Nathan Nichols and Seth Kinoshita investigate the story of Daisy and what became of her forgotten living quarters, and with it, dive into the devolution of campus architecture at Georgia Tech and beyond. How have these changes reflected a degradation in Georgia Tech’s societal focus? How does architecture play a role in the community a campus cultivates? And why does it matter? All this and more – In Plain Sight.
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Roles:
- Host: Nathan Nichols and Seth Kinoshita
- Audio Editor: Kevin McCollum
- Screenwriter: Laurel Bourg