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Admittedly, Kilbridge did not enter the GSD in an enviable position. The School was already in financial trouble and its internal politics were simmering when he arrived in 1969 as acting dean to succeed Jean Luis Sert. He came from the Business School where he was professor of Urban Systems, to try to put the School back together. It is hard to know what mandate he received from President Pusey. It might have included the ouster of Hartman, and the subsequent ouster of Isaacs, Nash and Vigier. But regardless of mandates, Kilbridge displayed, during his first year as dean...
...late 1950s, the Ramsey Committee, set up by Dean Bundy, recommended that the building be constructed. The Faculty looked at the idea in the early 1960s, until 1968 when an anonymous donor gave $13.5 million to build an undergraduate science center. The Corporation then commissioned as architects Sert, Jackson and Assoc. -the same firm that designed Peabody Terrace and Holyoke Center-to draw up plans. Meanwhile, another $4 million was raised. The plans came up for final approval in April and May of 1970, in the midst of a financial squeeze in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. At this...
...Center itself-designed by Luis Sert, former dean of the Graduate School of Design-will cost $17.6 million, and will house virtually all the undergraduate activities of the eight Harvard Science departments. A service plant will cost $6.6 million...
Edward Moore Kennedy, LL.D., Senator from Massachusetts. Josée Luis Sert, D.Hum., architect and urban planner...
President Pusey announced yesterday the appointment of Maurice D. Kilbridge, professor of Urban Systems, as Dean of the Graduate School of Design. Kilbridge has served as acting dean since July, when he replaced Jose Luis Sert...