Word: gsd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most of the people responsible for the conception Gund Hall back in 1965 are no longer connected with the University. Since the Corporation approved the GSD's request to apply for federal funds, Harvard has welcomed its 25th president, a new GSD and an almost new Design School faculty. Perhaps the only group that stayed with the project from start to finish has been the design firm, Andrews-Anderson-Baldwin of Toronto Canada...
There were times however, when the design team wondered whether the building would ever make it to Dedication Day. The first relationship with the GSD faculty, strained best deteriorate are during the crucial period just before bids went out in 1969. Edward R. Baldwin, who acred as partner-in-charge for the firm, said the most difficult obstacle was obtaining any faculty cooperation...
...decision to build Gund Hall was not made by the current faculty. last week from Toranto. A great deal of bitterness existed because of the financial pressures the building created. I had to fight total party of the part of the GSD...
That's not all the design team had to fight. The GSD has had its problems in the past out years. In addition to contending with the general financial squeeze through the University the new Dean, Maurice D. Kilbridge has had grievance, lodged against him by three senior GSD faculty members. A former faculty member Chester W. Hartman '57, is still appealing his dismissal over two years ago. Women at the School have filed hiring complaints with the Department of Health Education and Welfare...
...Rogers Committee ignored his protestations and Hartman brought his appeal directly to GSD Faculty members on an individual basis. Two Faculty meetings failed to deal with Hartman's objections, and he contemplated a law suit...