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...fall of 1968, the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) replaced the Department of Architectural Sciences. Some had argued that Architectural Sciences was too pre-professional, too much of a feeder school to the Graduate School of Design (GSD). As a result, Architectural Sciences had to go. Around Harvard, “pre-professional” seems like a bad word—God forbid the University might teach us something useful. But this aversion to all things potentially pre-professional prompted the imprudent removal of architecture from the undergraduate curriculum—never to return. With the curricular...
...example, Social Analysis is central to the field of urban studies, and concentrators would likely be required to take introductory economics. A study of statistics (Quantitative Reasoning) is critical to understanding both the functionality of buildings and the composition of urban areas. A class I took at the GSD focused on the theories of Jurgen Habermas and Hannah Arendt and their application to built space/public space (Moral Reasoning). In Foreign Cultures, there is currently a course called Tokyo—enough said. Literature and Arts A is intended to get students to focus on texts and textual analysis; in architecture...
...relation to architecture. Second, by concentrating in VES, one does not get appropriate exposure to the political and sociological aspects of the city—experiences essential to architecture and urban studies. To its credit, the VES department has recently been offering many more courses in conjunction with the GSD; however, the lack of studio courses has not been—and likely will not be—addressed within the current structure. An architecture and urban studies department would need to offer studio courses, and since there is no available space at the Carpenter Center, additional space would need...
...thing an architecture and urban studies department would have going for it immediately is the GSD, currently considered the best, or one of the best, graduate schools for architecture and urban design in the country. The GSD has a wide variety of course offerings, many of which are currently available to undergraduates through cross-registration. Clearly, if an undergraduate program in architecture and urban studies existed, it would inevitably be connected in some form to the GSD. The best structure of that relationship would need to be strategically determined, but undergraduates would not necessarily be seen as a burden...
...part, Chair of GSD Planning and Design Krieger, who is on the faculty committee for housing, hopes that Harvard officials will push for the oft-mentioned dream of an “urban ring” subway or light rail line around Boston...