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Leaning back in his chair, jacket off, cigarette hanging from his mouth, and sleeves rolled up, Andrews continued, "Sert (Jose Luis Sert, Dean of the Design School) has a great influence on me. I came to Harvard from Sydney with the attitude of architecture-as-art. Sert didn't give me any formula for design, but I left him with the attitude that humans are the thing." Andrews received his masters from the Design School in 1958, when he moved his base of operations to Toronto...
...Sert's Holyoke Center and Andrews' Scarborough are rationalistic buildings. The process of design of each individual architect determines the form of the building, most students of architecture will tell you. Andrews' process is clear in the designing of the Ontario college...
...next page three important Cambridge architectural firms are examined, and Gropius speaks on his work and philosophy. On pages four and five there is a look at the architect at Harvard: a portrait of Design School Dean Jose Luis Sert and a survey of changes in the undergraduate architectural sciences program...
...Sert said the Design School faculty recommendation had been presented to the Corporation. "I don't know the grounds on which the Corporation decided; it's their business" Sert commented. A spokesman for the Corporation refused to reveal yesterday why they made their decision...
Jose Louis Sert, Dean of the Faculty of Design, explained yesterday that for the past 30 years the President with the approval of the Corporation has chosen architects for all University construction...