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In April, the House Program Planning Committee (HPPC)—a 50-person body of students, faculty members, and planners from Einhorn Yaffee Prescott Architecture and Engineering—began meeting “to examine the mission and purpose of House life and to develop an architectural space...
A good university combats this tendency. It does so not through mandates or requirements, but through making space for serendipity. Indeed, it creates a kind of architecture of serendipity. It ensures that every week, and maybe every day, you will run into things that catch your eye, bring you up...
If you think about your years at Harvard—or your high school years, or your summers—you’ll probably find that some of the best and most life-defining moments came not from your own self-sorting, but from the power of serendipity. Institutions?...
In key ways, the architecture of control and the architecture of serendipity are at odds. Some universities, stores, television broadcasters, and government offices promote the echo chamber; others promote serendipity. My suggestion is that for good lives, good universities, and good societies, the power of self-sorting is at best...
Bureaucratic impediments and rigid traditions make it hard for a 350-year-old institution like Harvard to stay on the cutting edge. Keeping pace with modern science and technology requires institutions not only to update their curricula, but also to maintain state-of-the-art facilities. But campus development for...