Word: gsd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dodging dump trucks, cranes, and cement minors, after being constantly forced into Quincy Street on the way to William James or the Bio labs. Harvard students can be happy that Gund Hall is finally finished. The dedication festivities tonight provide in occasion for members of the architectural jet set, GSD faculty, and old alumni to engage in cocktail conversation about the beauties of the Building, Very late Friday night the Janitors will sweep away the last remains of the ceremonies and the GSD students can finally settle down to working in Gund Hall...
While Gund Hall rose agonizingly to the east of Mem Hall, students and visitors could gaze down on its model in the Great Space of Robinson Hall, former home of the GSD. From the model viewer's God's and the Harvard course cataloque's vantage point, one's attention was centered on the football stadium tiered studio roof--a feature than cannot be seen from any ground view. Rather, when coming out of the year and looking past Mem Hall the image is not of a football stadium but of a "medieval-modern" fortress with its fiberglass parapets...
After Jose Luis Sert had designated one of his most brilliant student's. John Andres, to head the new Gund Hall design team, the design team decided that all the GSD's fragmented departments and their respective studio work areas should be united under one roof without division. The result of that much-debated vision of 5-tiered studio space covered by a 2001 freespanning roof...
...Field Service began operation in 1968 when the GSD obtained a $25,000 grant from the Stern family. The UFS was originally set up to allow students credit for field work, and to provide technical assistance for poor community groups...
Seferi maintains that Kilbridge has never made clear what kind of Field Service the GSD supports. "It's obvious that the Design School is just not committed to a community program," she says. "We can't accept projects on the funds provided by the GSD...