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These are just two of the problems officials hope will be solved by the on-going $5.7 million renovations of Gund Hall, the principal building for Harvard's Graduate School of Design...
...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...
...automobile traffic in the Yard by closing the gate behind Widener Library and making the Johnston area the main entrance. That request required a gatehouse for guards direction traffic but raised complaints from the Cambridge Historical Commission which discouraged any tampering with the three century old handicapped Designet Graham Gund appeased all sides with a colonial era plan. The facility is more modern inside equipped with a telephone lamp seat space heater...
...final question demanding attention is, of course, whether Harvard got a quality product. Sullivan waxes eloquent about the structure's "post-modernist statement." It uses, he adds, "traditional shapes and forms, putting them together in a much different way." Gund says, "The reason for some of the detail is to make it not look like a toll booth, not make it look utilitarian...
John V. Lintner, Gund Professor of Economics and Business Administration died in June in an automobile accident in Cambridge at the age of 67. He was widely known in financial and academic communities for his major contribution to the capital-asset pricing model, a method of estimating an investment's future value. Lintner headed the University's joint Ph.D. program in economics and business for 15 years. He also served as a consultant to the Treasury Department under both Democratic and Republican administrations...