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Sitting in his Graduate School of Design (GSD) office, Daniel L. Schodeck boldly proclaims, "design will be a completely different profession in 20 years." The engine for change, the professor of Architectural Technology says, will be the school's Lab for Computer Graphics and Spatial Analysis, which he directs...
...glass roof, just to name one example, is an example of a technique that was "not yet fully proven," according to GSD Dean Gerald McCue...
...this latter score, at least, Harvard appears to differ little from other schools of architecture around the country. For despite the award-winning design drawn up by architect John Andrews (a 1958 GSD graduate), Gund Hall has fallen victim to a problem faced by a number similar structures around the country--the so-called "pioneer syndrome...
Many of these changes, according to William A. Doebele, a GSD professor, are akin to "getting the bugs out of a space capsule." He explains that because the overall building design was so unorthodox--"the first of its kind constructed anywhere"--certain technical problems have arisen that have got steadily worse...
...Problems resulted from budget cuts when building," says Edie Groden, the GSD's director of building services. "They were penny wise and pound foolish, but at the time there simply was not enough money...