Word: designs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some 15 years ago, students and faculty in the Department of Architecture at the Graduate School of Design grew extremely interested in the Harvard Square problem. Numerous student projects were devoted to the task of getting pedestrians across the street without making them run, and getting cars through the Square without forcing them to stall...
...this achievement is simplicity and functional design. In three instances, for example, a stair well is made to do double duty by using it to connect two buildings, each using the same set of stairs. This not only cuts building costs, but also helps to unify the group...
This functional design is a far cry from the "reactionary" Georgian which typified Harvard's pre-war building. In those days practical considerations were frequently neglected...
...most important significance in the design of the new Graduate Center is that it appears to mark Harvard's final acceptance of a new type architecture which has grown up in response to the needs of contemporary society and the potentialities of modern engineering...
After two post-war modern buildings by the University's traditional architects, Coolidge, Sheply, Bulfinch, and Abbot Harvard has turned to Groplus, and in a more general sense, to its own School of Design...