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In the planning stages are a glass and wire office building on Mt. Auburn Street designed by Viennese architect Hans Hollein and, and a contemporary art gallery on Memorial Drive designed by Renzo Piano, who was responsible for Paris' Georges Pompidou Centre. Both men are recipients of the prestigious Pritzker...
"It's important to have a general idea of the campus and maintain consistency," says Ahmed Arastu, a third-year student of architecture at the Graduate School of Design (GSD).
Harvard has long tried to reconcile the need to progress toward innovative, experimental architecture with the desire by many to maintain a uniform style on the campus.
William James Hall is one example of this type of architecture.
But if not a "carbon copy" Harvard's architecture from the late '70s to the late '90s could be described as architecturally unchallenging, Levitan says. The attitude of the administration at the time, he says, was to promote consensus--an aim reflected in the architecture of the time.