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...important to have a general idea of the campus and maintain consistency," says Ahmed Arastu, a third-year student of architecture at the Graduate School of Design (GSD...
...fear that people have is that Harvard will hire trophy architects who will all try to build their own Carpenter Centers," says Richard Marshall, associate professor of urban design at GSD...
During the later decades of this century, the GSD played almost no role in advising Harvard on its architectural designs...
...Kawakubo's continuing influence on up-and-coming designers reflects her ever-renewing ingenuity, as does her appeal to the younger set of Harvard design students that made up a sizable portion of the spectators. GSD Dean Peter Rowe gave his diligent pupils a lesson on the wide compass of design, proclaiming the necessity of building one community on the foundation of "intermingling design avenues and allied design disciplines." Here he alluded to what was apparently a major point of controversy in the selection of this year's award recipient: does fashion, lately so commercialized and hackneyed, qualify as real...
...design ancestors-both architecture and fashion aim to protect us, establish our identity and merge with the human form. And yet the question of whether the design traditionalist unfairly dismisses fashion design as "impure" was insufficiently answered. The Excellence in Design Award was developed in conjunction with the GSD's Design Arts Initiative, meant to expand recognition of the many art forms design can embody. But Kawakubo specifically requested no interpretation of her work by the speakers at the ceremony, having previously declared that her clothes "are not art" and carry "no message." She forbade her clothing to be anything...