Harvard Graduate School of Design
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The Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) is a graduate school at Harvard University offering degrees in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning and Design. Commonly considered one of the foremost design schools in the world, the GSD is dedicated to the education and development of future leaders in the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, and urban design.
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[edit] History
Classes exclusively devoted to architecture began at Harvard in 1893. The Faculty of Architecture acquired graduate school status in 1914. The major design professions were officially united in 1936 to form the Graduate School of Design. The GSD currently offers an array of masters and doctoral degrees, as well as Career Discovery and Executive Education programs. The school's international faculty provide a broad range of design philosophies and visions. The resources of the GSD and those of Harvard University, including its courses, museums, libraries, and cultural events, are available to all students. A leading industry survey has ranked the GSD's Department of Architecture number one in the United States for five consecutive years and the Department of Landscape Architecture number one for three consecutive years.[1] The market value of the school's endowment for the fiscal year 2006 to 2007 was approximately $426 million. The school's now defunct Laboratory for Computer Graphics and Spatial Analysis (LCGSA) is widely recognized as the fertile research/development environment from which the now commercialized technology of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) emerged in the late 1960's and 1970's.
[edit] Distinguished Graduates and Faculty
[edit] Graduates
- Joshua Prince-Ramus
- Jack Dangermond
- Harry Seidler
- Frank Gehry, Pritzker Prize Laureate, awarded honorary doctorate, studied city planning for one year
- Lawrence Halprin, landscape architect
- Charles Jencks
- Philip Johnson, Pritzker Prize Laureate
- Fumihiko Maki, Pritzker Prize Laureate
- Thom Mayne, Pritzker Prize Laureate
- Roger Montgomery
- Eliot Noyes
- IM Pei, Pritzker Prize Laureate
- Henry N. Cobb
- Paul Rudolph
- Yoshio Taniguchi
- John Andrews, designer of the GSD's Gund Hall
- Dan Kiley Modernist Landscape Architect
- Garret Eckbo Modernist Landscape Architect
- Ian McHarg Landscape Planner, GIS development
- Christopher Alexander Architect, A Pattern Language author
- Hideo Sasaki Landscape Architect, Former department chair, founder of Sasaki Associates and Sasaki Walker Associates
[edit] Current Faculty
- Preston Scott Cohen
- Herzog & de Meuron, Pritzker Prize Laureates
- Rem Koolhaas, Pritzker Prize Laureate
- Rafael Moneo, Pritzker Prize Laureate
- George Hargreaves, landscape architect
- Martha Schwartz, landscape architect
- Michael Van Valkenburgh, landscape architect
[edit] Notable Former Faculty
- Walter Gropius, Founder of Bauhaus
- Marcel Breuer
- Sigfried Giedion
- Josep Lluis Sert, dean of the GSD from 1953-1969 and often credited with being instrumental in bringing modernist architecture to the United States
- Henry N. Cobb
- Joseph Hudnut, the GSD's first dean
- Moshe Safdie
- Norman Newton, Landscape historian
- J. B. Jackson, Vernacular American landscape writer
- Zaha Hadid, Pritzker Prize Laureate
- Michael Sorkin
- Christopher Tunnard, landscape architect
- Peter Walker, landscape architect
[edit] External links
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