Harvard Graduate School of Design

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Harvard Graduate School of Design
Established:	1936
Type:	Private
Endowment:	US$426 Million
Dean:	Mohsen Mostafavi
Faculty:	138
Students:	618
Location:	Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Campus:	Urban
Website:	www.gsd.harvard.edu

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.

Contents 1 History 2 Distinguished graduates and faculty 2.1 Graduates 2.2 Current faculty 2.3 Notable former faculty 3 External links

[edit] History

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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 six consecutive years and the Department of Landscape Architecture number one for four 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 research/development environment from which the now commercialized technology of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) emerged in the late 1960s and 1970s.

[edit] Distinguished graduates and faculty

[edit] Graduates

• Lawrie E. Jordan, III & Bruce Q. Rado, 2 of the founders of ERDAS, Inc.
• Jack Dangermond
• Harry Seidler
• Frank Gehry, Pritzker Prize Laureate, awarded honorary doctorate, studied city planning for one year
• John Hejduk
• Lawrence Halprin, landscape architect
• Charles Jencks
• Shaun Donovan, current Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
• 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
• Garrett Eckbo, modernist landscape architect
• Ian McHarg, landscape planner, GIS development
• Christopher Alexander, architect, A Pattern Language author
• Joshua Prince-Ramus
• Farshid Moussavi
• Michele Michahelles, Paris-based architect, led restoration of Les Invalides
• Hideo Sasaki, landscape architect, former department chair, founder of Sasaki Associates and Sasaki Walker Associates
• Bruno Zevi, architect, critic, and historian

[edit] Current faculty

• Preston Scott Cohen
• Herzog & de Meuron, Pritzker Prize Laureates
• Rem Koolhaas, Pritzker Prize Laureate
• Rafael Moneo, Pritzker Prize Laureate
• Farshid Moussavi
• Martha Schwartz, landscape architect
• John R Stilgoe, landscape historian
• Michael Van Valkenburgh, landscape architect
• Mack Scogin, Professor in Practice
• Antoine Picon, Professor

[edit] Notable former faculty

• Kenneth John Conant
• Walter Gropius, founder of Bauhaus
• Marcel Breuer
• Martin Wagner, German architect and housing expert
• 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
• Monica Ponce de Leon

[edit] External links

• Harvard Graduate School of Design website

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