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...addition, the alumni association arranges a number of opportunities for students to meet with GSD graduates in forums, tours of local projects--like Boston's Copley Place, designed by a team under Howard Elkus, who took a master's in architecture from the school in 1963--and in "yield parties" around the country, where alumni meet with applicants who have been accepted to the school and encourage them to choose the GSD...
Still, criticism of the school comes from both sides--from designers who say the school hasn't done enough to respond to changing conditions in architecture and design, and from others who charge the GSD has lost its leadership position because it has become overly professionally-oriented and vocational...
Daniel Liebeskind, a prominent architect and head of a small but highly respected architecture school at the Cranbrook Educational Community in Michigan, agrees that "in general, the GSD really falls short of its mandate to be a leading school of architecture in the country," but for a different reason...
Despite its troubles, other architecture school officials maintain that Harvard remains the best school in the country, and a recent poll of architects did put the GSD in first place...
...dean's running his own ballgame, and he's going to keep everything in his tanned little hands," says Alan Rubin, co-chairman of the GSD's fledgling student forum, which was started just this year. "Nobody wants a degree in urban design if the program has been changed or reduced so that their work means nothing...