Robert R. Taylor & Tuskegee’s Architectural Legacy is an interdisciplinary interpretive exhibition designed to highlight the African American architectural history and legacy of the Tuskegee University’s Robert R. Taylor School of Architecture and Construction Science, from 1893 to the present. Tuskegee, formerly known as the Tuskegee Institute, was founded as a Black land-grant university in 1881 with Booker T. Washington (1856–1915) as the first teacher and Founding Principal. At Tuskegee, Washington collaborated closely Robert R. Taylor (1868–1942), the first accredited African American architect, the first Black person to receive an architecture degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and the person credited with developing Tuskegee’s architecture program. In 2010, Tuskegee renamed the architecture school to honor Taylor’s legacy, which includes the design of most buildings on campus built prior to 1932, including Tuskegee Chapel, built 1886–98; The Oaks (Dr. Booker T. Washington’s family home), completed 1899; Dorothy Hall, completed 1901 (now Kellogg Hotel & Conference Center); Tompkins Hall, completed 1910; and White Hall, completed 1910. This exhibition highlights Taylor’s history alongside that of the school and features architectural models, full-scale brick replicas of masonry details, rarely seen construction drawings, concept sketches, archival documents and photographs, and contemporary campus photographs by photographer and Tuskegee alumnus Chester Higgins, Jr. Additionally, the exhibition highlights the careers of Tuskegee faculty members Louis Fry, Sr. and John Welch, who collaborated with modernist architect Paul Rudolph to build the Tuskegee University Chapel (1967–69)—on the same site as Taylor’s Chapel which was destroyed by fire in 1957—and successfully translated Rudolph’s sculptural concrete form in local brick that echoed and modernized the building vernacular of Tuskegee.

Kwesi Daniels is the head of the architecture department at Tuskegee University. He developed the historic preservation program at Tuskegee University, within the Robert R. Taylor School of Architecture and Construction Science. The goal of the program is to train students to handle the nuances of historic properties using technology like laser scanning, photogrammetry, 3-D printing, drones, virtual reality, and augmented reality. He earned a bachelor’s and master’s of architecture from Tuskegee University and the University of Illinois at Chicago and a master’s of science in sustainability management from Columbia University. In 2020, he earned a PhD in urban geography from Temple University. Daniels is curator of Robert R. Taylor and Tuskegee's Architecture Legacy.

Rachanice Candy Tate joined the Legacy Museum at Tuskegee University as curator and codirector in May 2024. She holds degrees from Emory University (bachelor’s of arts) and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (master’s of arts) in art history, a master’s of public administration from Georgia State University, and a doctor’s of arts in humanities with a concentration in history from Clark Atlanta University. Tate is also an adjunct professor of art history in the TU Department of Fine and Performing Arts with more than 20 years of teaching at the collegiate levels.  Tate brings over 35 years of combined arts programming and exhibition experience from Emory University’s Carlos Museum, the American Research Center in Egypt, the Center for Creativity & Arts, and Emory Arts. She has managed art exhibits, artist commissions, mural installations, and oral history projects. Tate has successfully written National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, and National Park Service grants; created digital humanities projects; and written exhibition catalogs.

The Legacy Museum, founded in 2009, serves the Tuskegee University campus and visitors by presenting the University’s visual arts collections and exhibiting the history of Tuskegee University about science, healthcare, and bioethics. Through the lens of bioethics, the museum examines the intersection of bioscience and art—both central to the history of Tuskegee University, the surrounding community, and the former Infantile Paralysis Unit of the John A. Andrew Memorial Hospital, which the museum occupies. Through rotating art exhibitions, permanent exhibitions on bioethics, and the United States Public Health Service Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male in Macon County, Alabama from 1932 to 1972, and educational programs, the Legacy Museum staff provides diverse audiences an opportunity to engage with complex histories and their present ramifications.