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Before world-renowned architect Frank O. Gehry became known for his creatively warped buildings across the world, he studied city planning at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design...
Gehry also said that if the opportunity for him to design a building arose, he would “consider it, certainly...
Gehry, landscape architect Laurie Olin, and the New York-based planning and design firm Cooper, Robertson & Partners were charged with creating a master plan for Allston in 2004. Gehry helped brainstorm ideas to accommodate bicycle and pedestrian traffic on Anderson bridge, and he studied the feasibility of moving undergraduate houses across the Charles River...
Harvard’s campus is no stranger to stars from the design world. The late Le Corbusier designed the Carpenter Center and Walter Gropius designed the Harkness Graduate Center at the Law School. Most recently, Italian architect Renzo Piano has helped guide the Fogg Art Museum renovations and Stefan Behnisch has been tapped to design the science complex in Allston...
Professor in Practice of Urban Design Alex Krieger, who was on the selection committee for the planning team, said that Gehry was added to the team for his creative approach to planning, not his architectural prowess...