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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Graduate School of Design (GSD) may allow residents of 7 Summer Rd. to stay in their apartments beyond the scheduled June 1 eviction date, Maurice D. Kilbridge, dean of the GSD, said yesterday...
Howard T. Fisher '26, former professor at the Graduate School of Design and director emeritus of the Laboratory for Computer Graphics and Spatial Analysis, died of cancer on January 23 in Exeter, N.H. He was 75 years...
Fisher played a major role in developing concepts of design that underlie such American innovations as the shopping center and the functional modern house...
Fisher was graduated from Harvard magna cum laude in art history in 1926, and then studied architecture at the Graduate School of Design for three years. After more than 30 years of work as a city planner, teacher and researcher, Fisher returned to Cambridge...
DIED. Pier Luigi Nervi, 87, Italian builder and architect famed for his graceful, dramatic structures of reinforced concrete; of a heart attack; in Rome. Originally trained in civil engineering, Nervi first began experimenting with concrete design when he constructed an all-concrete theater in Naples in 1927. He went on to create a strong, light blend of mortar and steel mesh called ferrocemento and, by casting major structural pieces at construction sites, managed to mold concrete into soaring, tilted buttresses and high, swooping ceilings. His finest buildings, critics agree, are the vast Exhibition Hall in Turin, Rome's sunburst...