Word: 1960s
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...International, style of architecture in the United States, the GSD has trained a generation of architects who have transformed the character of the American city. Even within the parameters of Harvard, architects associated with the GSD also designed the lion's share of campus buildings constructed during the 1960s and 1970s...
Even though Dean Hudna coined the phrase "post-modern" in 1946, the GSD was not associated with any of the movements that sought alternatives to Modernism in the late 1960s and 1970s...
During the 1960s other schools like Yale, the University of Pennsylvania, and Cornell began to pose a serious threat to the hegemony of Harvard. Newly-founded architecture departments, often staffed by Harvard graduates, rapidly attained parity with...
...Harvard that the 80-year-old man remembers best was nothing like the golden University that Pusey knew in the 1920s, but the turbulent school of the 1960s. Students were protesting the Vietnam War and rebelling against the establishment, including Harvard...
Thomas Saltonstall, another voice of 1960s liberal dissent, admits, "No question the family name has helped me, but there have been times when I have been singled out because of the family name...