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Jerzy Soltan, an esteemed architect and the Robinson, Jr., professor of architecture and urban design, emeritus, at the Graduate School of Design (GSD), died on Sept. 16 at his Cambridge home. He was 92.Soltan first joined the GSD in 1959, when the dean at the time and another illustrious modernist, Josep Lluís Sert, invited him as a visiting critic. Two years later, he was appointed Professor of Architecture. He remained at the GSD in various guises until his death, educating and inspiring countless students with his Le Corbusier-influenced modernist vision and unique teaching style.Gerald M. McCue, John...
...that we ever do) in order to see the work of architect Henry N. Cobb ’47, who in 1955 co-founded a now-famous firm with I.M. Pei. An award-winning former chairman of the Department of Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD), Cobb has finally built something in his own backyard—literally. Taking up the grassy space behind and next to the GSD, the University’s new Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS) sits on both sides of Cambridge Street as if quietly defying (or perhaps anxiously awaiting...
Harvard’s Law School (HLS), College, Graduate School of Education (GSE), Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS), School of Public Health (SPH), Divinity School (HDS), Design School (GSD), Kennedy School of Government (KSG), and Extension School have all announced their intentions to accept displaced students as “visiting students” for the semester...
...College, GSAS, HLS, SPH, and GSE will each accept up to 25 students. HDS, GSD, and KSG have not yet determined how many students they will each take. The Extension School will allow all students from affected schools staying within a commuting distance to enroll in courses tuition-free...
Aiding the cause, MIT Visiting Scholar Carlo N. Ratti, who had been pursuing his own project to help in the tsunami relief effort, saw the results of the SIGUS competition and suggested to the GSD team that they “join forces...