Word: design
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...named Michael Van Valkenburgh, who has been an associate professor at the design school since 1982, to be the school's newest professor of landscape architecture...
...Valkenburg, who specializes in ice architecture, worked with several students to design and build the seven-foot-high walls of ice that adorned the Cabot Quad last month. He constructed the walls by spraying water on mesh screens, letting the wind and temperature form the exact design...
...Valkenburgh, one of only four tenured faculty members in landscape architecture, brings a more artistic and less functional style of landscape design to the faculty, said Professor Linda Jewell, chairman of the Department of Landscape Architecture and a member of the faculty search committee which chose Van Valkenburgh...
...Valkenburgh's appointment concludes a two-year search for a senior faculty member. The appointment was delayed because the field of architectural design is in a "period of transition," said GSD Dean Gerald M. McCue...
Perhaps the biggest barrier faced by students who want to design their own major is ignorance. Many members of the Harvard community, students and faculty alike, are not aware of the interdisciplinary option. At the beginning of last term, when one special concentrator looked for a departmental meeting within her house, she says she was met with a joke about being "special...