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...statement distributed at Saturday's ground-breaking exercises for George Gund Hall, the new Graduate School of Design headquarters, called for a "reordering of priorities" to relate architectural education more closely with the nation's urban needs...
When completed in August, 1971. Gund Hall will accommodate 400 students and 70 faculty members. The $6-million structure, designed by the Toronto firm of John Andrews/Anderson/Baldwin, will have five levels above ground and two below. Five step-like terraces will be covered by a single steel roof. Behind each terrace will be offices, seminar rooms, and lounges...
...Andrews was chosen by President Pusey and the Corporation to design Gund Hall despite a unanimous Design faculty recommendation to hold a competition for the building's design...
During the Controversy two years ago over the Corporation's choice, Robert W. Yelton, editor of the Design School's magazine Connection, urged that experts in other fields work with the architect in designing Gund Hall. Sociologists and psychologists should be consulted on the design to represent a broader point of view, he said at that time...
...Gund Hall is named for the late George Gund, Cleveland banker and industrialist. His family and foundation contributed a major part of the funds for the building. John L. Loeb, leader of a recent national campaign to raise funds for the School, donated the Frances Loeb Library, named for his wife. Money for the William Thomas Piper Auditorium was given by the descendants of the manufacturer of the Piper Cub airplane...