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Though the Woodberry Poetry Room is usually one of the quieter places in Lamont, the fifth-floor room has become a subject of controversy since renovations to the room set off a letter-writing campaign led by Graduate School of Design (GSD) faculty concerned that the renovations will ruin famed architect Alvar Aalto’s original design for the room...
...GSD Department of Architecture Chair Toshiko Mori learned of the renovations to the room through an anonymous letter she received on June...
Following a presentation given by the room’s current architects to interested GSD faculty, Mori wrote a letter to Larson Librarian of Harvard College Nancy M. Cline urging Cline “to reconsider [the] dismantling of [the] Woodberry Poetry Room...
Brainard said that the GSD was not notified of the renovations to the room because “there is no mechanism within Harvard for notifying the Graduate School of Design of capital projects...
Others disagree. “Through disputable choices like the altered general disposition and the change of the furniture, the new Woodberry Room will not have much in common with Aalto’s original creation,” four GSD professors wrote to Cline in a July 7 letter. Those professors included the directors of the GSD’s master in architecture and doctoral programs...