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Moreover, Harvard does not treat such projects lightly. They went out and hired one of the most prestigious--and expensive--architects in the area, Graham Gund, whose father lent his name to Harvard's design school building. They also decided to install a phone and heating...
...they squabbled and they squabbled. Gund went back to the drawing board--about 300 times in fact--and came up with a final plan: an ornately designed wooden 5-foot-by-5-foot house with a pointy roof. The commission suggested changing the rooting material and the paint color. The plan was set in action, the University shelled out $25.000. In early July, the structure was unveiled amid mild fanfare. And they worked happily ever after...
...with the Harvard mentality itself. Charles Sullivan, executive director of the commission, pshaws any claims that his organization inflated the costs, nothing that they recommended few actual changes, and that Harvard obviously went into the project with grand designs in mind. "You don't hire Graham Gund to build a telephone booth," Sullivan adds...
Robert H. Scott, vice president for administration, perhaps sums it up best when he says, "We wanted to build a quality gatehouse." Such an obsession may seem silly (Gund says he spent "an inordinate amount of time for that sized building.") But it's the mindset of getting things that look the best and setting few cost restrictions that led officials three years ago to purchase seven kiosks for $6000 each, when Tufts got similar items for about $150 apiece. That is, in part, why it costs $60,000 to get a bachelor's degree from Harvard...
...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 if not look like a a toll booth, not make it look utilitarian...