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.
[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 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 2008 to 2009 was approximately $314 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. More recent research initiatives include the Design Robotics Group, a unit that investigates new material systems and fabrication technologies in the context of architectural design and construction.
[edit] Distinguished graduates and faculty
Gund Hall during Graduation
Gund Hall, the home of the GSD.
[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
- Danny Forster, architect and television host
- Charles Jencks
- Shaun Donovan, current Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
- Mitchell Joachim
- Philip Johnson, Pritzker Prize Laureate
- Fumihiko Maki, Pritzker Prize Laureate
- Thom Mayne, Pritzker Prize Laureate
- Roger Montgomery, first HUD Urban Designer, dean at U.C. Berkeley
- Michel Mossessian, architect, Design Principal and Founder of mossessian & partners
- Richard T. Murphy, Jr.
- Fotis Colakides, Mayor of Limassol, Cyprus, Vice President of the Council of Europe
- 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
- Mehrdad Yazdani, L.A. based design principal
- Alejandro Zaera-Polo
- 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
- Edward Durell Stone, Modernist architect
- Edward Durell Stone, Jr., landscape architect, founder of EDSA
- Edward Larrabee Barnes, prolific Modernist architect
- Bruno Zevi, architect, critic, and historian
- Christopher Charles Benninger, Architect
- Kongjian Yu, landscape architect, educator, founder of Turenscape, Peking
- Grant Jones, landscape architect
David Heymann, Architect
[edit] Current faculty
- Preston Scott Cohen, Chair of the Department of Architecture
- Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, Herzog & de Meuron, Pritzker Prize Laureates
- K. Michael Hays, Professor, Author, Historian
- Florian Idenberg
- Wes Jones
- Niall Kirkwood
- Martin Bechthold, Professor of Architectural Technology, Director, Design Robotics Group
- Rem Koolhaas, Pritzker Prize Laureate
- Sanford Kwinter, Professor, Author, Theorist
- Michael Manfredi and Marion Weiss, Weiss/Manfredi
- Rahul Mehrotra, Chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design
- Rafael Moneo, Pritzker Prize Laureate
- Toshiko Mori
- Mohsen Mostafavi, Dean
- Farshid Moussavi
- Lars Muller
- Emmanuel Petit
- Antoine Picon
- Luis Rojo de Castro
- Peter G Rowe
- Martha Schwartz
- Mack Scogin
- Jorge Silvetti
- John R Stilgoe
- Michael Van Valkenburgh
- Charles Waldheim, Chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture
[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
- Rick Joy, Visiting Professor
- Zaha Hadid, Pritzker Prize Laureate
- Christopher Tunnard, landscape architect
- Peter Walker, landscape architect
- Monica Ponce de Leon
- Bjarke Ingels, Visiting Professor[1]
- Joshua Prince-Ramus, Visiting Professor
- George Hargreaves, landscape architect
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Coordinates: 42°22′33″N 71°06′50″W / 42.37583°N 71.11389°W / 42.37583; -71.11389
