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There was considerable unhappiness within the GSD itself during 1969. Sert had resigned as dean, and Doebele was named acting dean to replace him. After Kilbridge assumed office in the summer of 1969, the GSD underwent a policy transformation...
...building that in body wanted is dedicated on October 12 it will mark the culmination of project that began over seven years ago. In 1965 it be came apparent that Robinson Hall built in 1902--couldn't keep pace with the Design School rate of growth Since 1922 the GSD found it necessary to expand twice to nearby buildings and the concept of a unified Design School under one root no longer existed even remotely...
...battle with Cambridge over zoning ordinances. The committee also began to revise its plans using the larger site to expand the building to its present size, about 155,000 square feet. While the committee worked out a detailed program, the Corporation made plans to engage an architect. The GSD faculty favored an international competition to select the design firm. According to Jose Louis Sert, dean of the Design School until the summer of 1969. President Pusey disliked the idea of a competition, and the suggestion was scrapped instead, each member of the GSD faculty was asked to submit a list...
Although the selection process is unknown, the architect who was eventually hired, John Andrews, studied under Sert and received his degree from the GSD Although Sert refuses to divulge the contents of the list he submitted, he acknowledges great respect for Andrews. "He was one of my most brilliant students," Sert says...
Expenses could have been considerably reduced if the GSD faculty had permitted the design firm to carry out the program approved in 1968. But the GSD in 1969 was substantially different from the GSD that commissioned Gund Hall in 1965. It may be difficult to design a building for scientists (consider the dissatisfaction with the Science Center) but it is next to impossible to design a building that will make a large number of architects happy...