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Professor of the History of Architecture Howard Burns of the Graduate School of Design (GSD) is directing a project based out of a museum in Mantua, Italy, designed to recontruct a full-scale model of an early Renaissance Italian architect's home. Using only 16th-century documents, a few drawings and analyses of Renaissance era houses still standing, Burns travelled to Mantua last summer with a "research cum-design cum-construction crew" of Harvard students to begin the project...
Burns and a group of 13 GSD students and two Harvard fine arts graduate students were able to finish a 13-meter tall facade, and they will return to Mantua next June to complete the house, which is being built as an extension of the museum. The group is constructing the model on a wooden framework which Burns and his team covered with a plastic foam, painted to look like whitewashed stonework, Burns says...
...Graduate, School of Design (GSD) last month tenured the artist who constructed walls of ice on the Radcliffe Quad...
...GSD named Michael Van Valkenburgh, who has been an associate professor at the design school since 1982, to be the school's newest professor of landscape architecture...
...Valkenburgh's appointment concludes a two-year search for a senior faculty member. The appointment was delayed because the field of architectural design is in a "period of transition," said GSD Dean Gerald M. McCue...