Word: gsd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
There are many historical and institutional reasons for the 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...
...GSD has not been guided down a twisted path simply by the quirks of the past or the idiosyncrasies of the school's bureaucratic structure. The GSD's administrative leader strongly shapes its direction, as the current dean, Maurice D. Kilbridge, has illustrated...
...last six years Kilbridge has guided the school to its feet financially--it now operates just into the black--and created some sense out of the chaos left by his predecessor. His Business School background has helped the GSD: as confidential visiting committee minutes revealed last week state...
...atmosphere at the school remained highly charged yesterday, and the future of the school and of its dean remains unpredictable; this week's tempest may turn out only to be a three-day blow. But as one GSD faculty member said last week, "There is a certain friction at the school. Without friction there is no creativity, but when it goes on too long, with misunderstanding after misunderstanding, the atmosphere ceases to be conducive to constructive work...