Word: sert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dean Jose Luis Sert and the GSD are quite conscious that the opposition between the two approaches is particularly relevent to architecture. Another way to frame the contrast is in the opposition between the old eclectic method whereby the student looked to traditional styles for design forms and the modern approach which stresses the need for a unique design solution for every different set of conditions...
...under heavy strain since 220 students are enrolled in GSD while Hunt and Robinson Halls can really accommodate a maximum of only 200. Plans are being made for a campaign to enlarge the physical plant of the school. No increase in the enrollment is foreseen, according to Dean Sert, in order to preserve the close knit character of the small school...
Contributing to the feeling of activity at the GSD, indeed essential to it, is the outside professional activity of most of the Faculty members. Dean Sert himself sets the example with his own busy private practice and extensive participation in Cambridge and University affairs. The result is the antithesis of a picture of academic sterility. One student remarked, "I can never get hold of my adviser because he is off on the job somewhere...
There will also be a "proportional increase in financial aid to keep pace with the rise in tuition," according to Jose Luis Sert, Dean of the School of Design, and Douglas Horton, Dean of the Divinity School. At least one half of any increased income will probably be plowed back into financial...
...Sert opposes the contention that nothing is gained by moderate crowding. He feels that concentrated housing can provide definite benefits including the development of "urban character" and the conservation of land...