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Located on Cambridge Street adjacent to Memorial Hall, the Gund Hall of the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) is perhaps one of the ugliest and most poorly executed buildings on campus. The structure’s stepped profile, visually offensive from the outside, is also not conducive to the work students do there. On each step, rows of cubicles house scores of budding architects, but at the very bottom it is chilling cold at night, and at the very top, uncomfortably warm at midday. Despite the GSD’s structural failings, however, the building still periodically welcomes compelling?...
...both graduated from the Madrid School of Architecture in 1971. Their work has been erected throughout Spain—primarily in their native and adopted homes—but has also been welcomed in Germany and the rest of Europe. Cruz and Ortiz are currently guest lecturers at the GSD, and in a fitting homage to their award-winning work, models and preliminary sketches detailing some of their most notable work now inhabit the lobby of Gund Hall...
...little foolhardy, because the presentation, in serving its function as a lesson to architectural students, focuses on Cruz and Ortiz’s process. An appreciation for the full weight and human implications of their work can only come from a visit to the structures themselves. The GSD attempts to fill that void by displaying coffee table books directly relating to the subject matter, but the exhibit still feels a little unsatisfying. “Cruz y Ortiz” remains a compelling intellectual exercise of minimalist space creation, if only an exercise...
...Marshall issues of connecting communities and worrying about what happens to them as big institutions take over are not new. In 1999 he led a GSD studio class that considered options for Harvard’s Allston property, and he said the timing of his studio—just two years after Harvard disclosed it had spent the last decade buying 100 acres of land in Allston—meant that politics shared the stage with planning...
...presentation GSD student Connie Chung focused on long-term housing needs. She proposed that all of Harvard’s 30 acres in Watertown, as well as much of its undeveloped Allston property, should be devoted to creating no fewer than 4,700 housing units for faculty, students and even some residents...