Word: designate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...controversy gripping the Graduate School of Design (GSD) for the last ten days remains unresolved as a faculty request for a University-level investigation of the school stalled in the GSD's committee of chairmen...
THREE AND ONE-HALF years ago, the Graduate School of Design (GSD) moved from its cramped headquarters in Robinson Hall into Gund Hall's spanking new, multi-tiered studio without walls. Architects had laboriously designed the $8-million building to break down internal divisions within the school, which traditionally has been extraordinarily fragmented along departmental lines. But such drawing board solutions rarely resolve intricate personal, departmental or scholarly disputes, especially in the GSD, where a talent for Byzantine politics is a prerequisite for survival...
...discord that now cripples the GSD: the last dean's laissez-faire approach left the school in administrative turmoil and on the brink of fiscal disaster; the relatively small GSD is especially vulnerable at Harvard, where each "tub" must stand on its own budgetary "bottom"; and physical designers, quantitative planners, and user-oriented GSD students and faculty have continually disputed the appropriate recipe for a design education. The list goes...
...incapable of elevating the GSD past the narrow goal of solvency. It is time for Maurice Kilbridge to step down. And it is past time for President Bok to take steps to give the 600 students at the GSD the education they are paying for. The Graduate School of Design has hidden behind the Harvard name long enough...
...blaze of morning sunlight the buildings are white, elegant and French in downtown Algiers. Although the streets are named after Algerian martyrs, their design is French colonial. White stucco, palm trees and street cafes appear in regular sequence and converge at a large square or park. Their sharp angularity seems out of place in this hilly city decorated with Islamic arabesques...