Word: designate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...called report of the executive session of the Overseers' Committee to Visit the Graduate School of Design (May 27-28, 1975) together with the addendum covering discussions which preceded the executive session represent only these notes. Again, it is not a report; rather it is an incomplete collection of statements reflecting the comments of comparatively few individuals. Because I felt that these notes by no means represented the total opinion of the visiting committee and, therefore, would not be useful to me or to the sub-committee of the visiting committee, which is to prepare the visiting committee's report...
...deeply regret that so misleading a statement has become public. Not only is such publicity unfair and damaging to the School of Design, but equally unfortunate is the constraint it may well cause to the free and open discussion between the School and its visiting committee which is at the heart of the visiting committee process...
...consensus of the Committee was that the Graduate School of Design (GSD) requires the achievement of excellence. Members found a lack of ability to fulfill rhetorical objectives, caused by a lack of administrative and academic leadership and evidenced by mediocrity of academic output and apparent student and faculty boredom. Discussion centered on three areas of concern to the Committee...
Several members of the Committee saw that the GSD must undertake a new "missionary" role in determining the relationships of human wants and values to design, just as the School had assumed under Gropius in the '30's and '40's the leadership of an heroic period in architecture. One member stressed that American civilization depends on its cities and saw that the GSD can become a major resource in solving urban problems if it can actually implement its objectives as set forth in the catalog and in the Dean's Report and increase its concern for the socio-economic...
Another member of the Committee suggested that the field of design must begin to draw from other fields. He proposed that the GSD be incorporated into the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), in a move analogous to the attachment of the Engineering School to FAS as the Division of Engineering and Applied Physics. He saw that the creation of the Division was a result of an intellectual drive in engineering. Design schools, he said, are probing toward human wants and values but are unable to comprehend them. Another member saw that arts and sciences are not necessarily the vehicle...