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Running Circles. To reduce the turbulence and at the same time increase the rudder's effective steering angle, a group led by Naval Architect Barry Steele, of Britain's National Physical Laboratory, revived an idea once proposed for aircraft wing flaps. They fitted rotating cylinders around the rudder posts of several ship models (see diagram). Equipped with its own small motor, the cylinder can spin in either direction. Thus when the rudder is pushed hard to port (left), for instance, the cylinder is rotated in a clockwise direction. This directs a flow of water against the back...
...repeat its battle with Cambridge over zoning ordinances. The committee also began to revise its plans using the larger site to expand the building to its present size, about 155,000 square feet. While the committee worked out a detailed program, the Corporation made plans to engage an architect. The GSD faculty favored an international competition to select the design firm. According to Jose Louis Sert, dean of the Design School until the summer of 1969. President Pusey disliked the idea of a competition, and the suggestion was scrapped instead, each member of the GSD faculty was asked to submit...
Although the selection process is unknown, the architect who was eventually hired, John Andrews, studied under Sert and received his degree from the GSD Although Sert refuses to divulge the contents of the list he submitted, he acknowledges great respect for Andrews. "He was one of my most brilliant students," Sert says...
...December 1967, the committee made a full presentation of its proposals to the architect. Three months later, Andrews returned to the Design School, and revealed his preliminary plans to the committee and the Harvard Planning Office (which had been chosen as consultant...
...design development drawings were approved in September 1968 and the architect received permission to complete the construction documents. Although some dissatisfaction had occurred up to this point, the most bungled chapters in the Gund Hall story would be written during the spring...