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...complaints that the University is a sterile mortuary for the creative artist the Design School offers contrary evidence that successful training is possible in fields not limited to the exercise of the critical interpretative facilities but also in those relying upon artistic creativity. The efforts and results of the GSD and Arch. Sci. Department in the teaching of the visual arts assumes particular importance in a society whose increased awareness and concern for the role of the visual arts is especially notable against the background of nearly complete neglect which characterized its attitude towards these fields in the past...
Dean Jose Luis Sert and the GSD are quite conscious that the opposition between the two approaches is particularly relevent to architecture. Another way to frame the contrast is in the opposition between the old eclectic method whereby the student looked to traditional styles for design forms and the modern approach which stresses the need for a unique design solution for every different set of conditions...
Outside of the undergraduate Department of Architectural Sciences the Departments of Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and City and Regional Planning are concerned with the professional training of graduate students. Facilities currently are under heavy strain since 220 students are enrolled in GSD while Hunt and Robinson Halls can really accommodate a maximum of only 200. Plans are being made for a campaign to enlarge the physical plant of the school. No increase in the enrollment is foreseen, according to Dean Sert, in order to preserve the close knit character of the small school...
This danger is partially offset at the GSD through the collaborative projects undertaken by the advanced students of the three departments. Times Square, Park Square in Boston, and the portion of Cambridge between Harvard and MIT have been project subjects in the past. Besides leading to a mutual appreciation of each other's role these joint efforts provide the students an opportunity to encounter the complexity entailed in a plan complete with its economic, political, technological, social and aesthetic aspects...
...architecture it comes down to Gropius's statement that a designer "expresses his ideas of form with the technique and material at his command." Therefore in studio design courses, the core of the GSD curriculum, "Emphasis on such visual considerations as composition and proportion is shared by equal attention to the mechanical and structural considerations that influence design...