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Besides gaining a new dean, the Design School is also acquiring a new chairman of the Architecture Department, the post the McCue is vacating. Henry N. Cobb '46, a founding partner in the New York firm of I.M. Pei & Partners and chief architect of Boston's John Hancock Tower, will assume the post in July with the intention of establishing new courses in the GSD in revitalizing buildings. "Older buildings embody certain cultural values; they are a statement about our past that should enrich our lives," Cobb says, adding, "We don't have to destroy our past to prepare...
...Maurice D. Kilbridge stepped aside as dean of the Graduate School of Design (GSD) to make room for Gerald M. McCue, professor of Architecture and Urban Design. In May, Henry N. Cobb '46, a founding partner in the I.M. Pei firm, agreed to replace McCue as chairman of the GSD's Architecture Department...
...library, a magnificent stone and glass structure designed by I.M. Pei, was slated to be built next to where the Kennedy School of Government now stands. But community fears about possible increased congestion in the Square forced the library corporation to change those plans and pick the Dorchester site...
...city, not the country, and that the library should be near the sea, which he loved. Finally, Ted Kennedy announced to a meeting of the library's board: "If Jackie wants her husband's presidential library in Dorchester, it will be in Dorchester." Architect I.M. Pei prepared new designs (he eventually made a total of five before the Kennedys-chiefly Jackie-approved). The new plans featured more flamboyant geometry and a glass pavilion with a view of the ocean...
...vote was more influenced by perceptions of citizens' attitudes. At any rate, the old MBTA site reverted to the Commonwealth and the state donated 12 acres on Columbia Point for the library, despite some feeling that, in terms of economic development, a better site could have been found. Pei returned to his New York studio and drew up a fifth set of plans--the glass and pre-formed concrete structure which officials will dedicate on October...