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Following a slide lecture on Monday by architect Douglas Shand Tucci '72, Dudley House will host a dinner for its members and affiliates. The following night, Dudley will be the scene of a country dance, and Wednesday night lutinist Hopkinson Smith '70 will give a recital open to all undergraduates...
...longer hide the fact that mid-life is actually disappearing and you are about to be irrevocably old. He is aquiver with outrage over this unseemly development. Harvey has other specific worries: he is impotent; he is a hypochondriac; he is self-pitying because as an architect he has become only prosperous, not great. In the course of the weekend he flirts with suicide, Roman Catholicism, other women and fortune telling -- everything but an honest confrontation with himself...
While the GSD remained true to the spirit of reinforced concrete and the right angle during Sert's tenure--as evidenced in Peabody Terrace or Boston City Hall--orthodoxy was being questioned at schools like Pennsylvania (homebase of the influential architect and teacher Louis Kahn) and UCLA (where Charles Moore blended high design with neon glitz...
...course stabilized, however, in 1953 with the appointment of Spanish architect Josep Lluis Sert as both dean of the GSD and of the architecture school. Not only did Sert design Peabody Terrace, Holyoke Center, and the Science Center, but the world-renown architect forged strong links between the GSD and the universal church of Modernism, the Congres Internationaux d' Architecture Moderne (CIAM...
...students have any complaint, it is that "at the GSD one learns architecture, and not how to be an architect," says Brad Walker (MAR '85). "Many employers want an employee who knows how to function in their offices. [The GSD's] is not a vocational education...