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The Harvard Graduate School of Design
Harvard Graduate School of Design

The Harvard Graduate School of Design is a graduate school at Harvard University offering degrees in Architecture, Landscape architecture, and urban planning....
 (GSD) is a graduate school at Harvard University
Harvard University

Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States, and a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1636 by the colonial Massachusetts legislature, Harvard is the Colonial Colleges institution of higher learning in the United States....
 offering degrees in Architecture
Architecture

The term architecture can refer to a process, a profession or documentation.As a process, architecture is the activity of designing and construction buildings and other physical structures by a person or a computer, primarily to provide shelter....
, Landscape Architecture
Landscape architecture

Landscape architecture is the most modern of the environment professions and represents a synthesis of arts, science and technical philosphies and practices that seek to care for the Earth's landscapes in a truly holistic, creative and sustainable manner....
, and Urban Planning and Design
Urban planning

Urban, city, and town planning is the integration of the disciplines of land use planning and transport planning, to explore a very wide range of aspects of the built and social environments of urbanized municipalities and communities....
.

ses exclusively devoted to architecture began at Harvard in 1893. The Faculty of Architecture acquired graduate school status in 1914. The major design professions were officially united in 1936 to form the Graduate School of Design. The GSD currently offers an array of masters and doctoral degrees, as well as Career Discovery and Executive Education programs. The school's international faculty provide a broad range of design philosophies and visions.






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The Harvard Graduate School of Design
Harvard Graduate School of Design

The Harvard Graduate School of Design is a graduate school at Harvard University offering degrees in Architecture, Landscape architecture, and urban planning....
 (GSD) is a graduate school at Harvard University
Harvard University

Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States, and a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1636 by the colonial Massachusetts legislature, Harvard is the Colonial Colleges institution of higher learning in the United States....
 offering degrees in Architecture
Architecture

The term architecture can refer to a process, a profession or documentation.As a process, architecture is the activity of designing and construction buildings and other physical structures by a person or a computer, primarily to provide shelter....
, Landscape Architecture
Landscape architecture

Landscape architecture is the most modern of the environment professions and represents a synthesis of arts, science and technical philosphies and practices that seek to care for the Earth's landscapes in a truly holistic, creative and sustainable manner....
, and Urban Planning and Design
Urban planning

Urban, city, and town planning is the integration of the disciplines of land use planning and transport planning, to explore a very wide range of aspects of the built and social environments of urbanized municipalities and communities....
.

History

Classes exclusively devoted to architecture began at Harvard in 1893. The Faculty of Architecture acquired graduate school status in 1914. The major design professions were officially united in 1936 to form the Graduate School of Design. The GSD currently offers an array of masters and doctoral degrees, as well as Career Discovery and Executive Education programs. The school's international faculty provide a broad range of design philosophies and visions. The resources of the GSD and those of Harvard University, including its courses, museums, libraries, and cultural events, are available to all students. A leading industry survey has ranked the GSD's Department of Architecture number one in the United States for six consecutive years and the Department of Landscape Architecture number one for four consecutive years. The market value of the school's endowment for the fiscal year 2006 to 2007 was approximately $426 million. The school's now defunct Laboratory for Computer Graphics and Spatial Analysis (LCGSA) is widely recognized as the research/development environment from which the now commercialized technology of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) emerged in the late 1960s and 1970s.

Distinguished graduates and faculty

Harvard Gsd

Graduates

  • Lawrie E. Jordan, III & Bruce Q. Rado, 2 of the founders of ERDAS, Inc.
  • Jack Dangermond
    Jack Dangermond

    Jack Dangermond with his wife Laura co-founded the ESRI , a privately-held Geographic information system software company in 1969.Dangermond is the company's President and Chief Exectutive Officer and works out of ESRI's headquarters in Redlands, California....
  • Harry Seidler
    Harry Seidler

    Harry Seidler, Companion of the Order of Australia Officer of the Order of the British Empire was an Austrian-born Australian architect who is considered to be one of the leading exponents of Modernism's methodology in Australia and the first architect to fully express the principles of the Bauhaus in Australia....
  • Frank Gehry
    Frank Gehry

    Frank Owen Gehry, Order of Canada is a Pritzker Prize-winning architect based in Los Angeles.His buildings, including his private residence, have become tourist attractions....
    , Pritzker Prize
    Pritzker Prize

    The Pritzker Architecture Prize is awarded annually by the Hyatt Foundation to honor "a living architect whose built work demonstrates a combination of those qualities of talent, vision and commitment, which has produced consistent and significant contributions to humanity and the built environment through the art of architecture."...
     Laureate    , awarded honorary doctorate, studied city planning for one year
  • John Hejduk
    John Hejduk

    John Quentin Hejduk , was an architect, artist and educator who spent much of his life in New York City. Hejduk is noted for his use of attractive and often difficult-to-construct objects and shapes; also for a profound interest in the fundamental issues of shape, organization, representation, and reciprocity....
  • Lawrence Halprin
    Lawrence Halprin

    Lawrence Halprin is a prolific and accomplished American landscape architect and educator. ...
    , landscape architect
  • Charles Jencks
    Charles Jencks

    Charles Jencks is an American architectural theorist, landscape architect and designer. His books on the history and criticism of Modernism and Postmodernism were widely read in architectural circles and beyond....
  • Shaun Donovan
    Shaun Donovan

    Shaun L.S. Donovan serves as United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in the cabinet of President of the United States Barack Obama....
    , current Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
  • Philip Johnson
    Philip Johnson

    Philip Cortelyou Johnson was an influential American architect. With his thick, round-framed glasses, Johnson was the most recognizable figure in American architecture for decades....
    , Pritzker Prize Laureate
  • Fumihiko Maki
    Fumihiko Maki

    Fumihiko Maki is a Japanese architect. After studying at the University of Tokyo he moved to the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, and then to Harvard Graduate School of Design....
    , Pritzker Prize Laureate
  • Thom Mayne, Pritzker Prize Laureate
  • Roger Montgomery
    Roger Montgomery

    Roger Montgomery was a city planner, urban designer, architect, and educator....
  • Eliot Noyes
    Eliot Noyes

    Eliot Fette Noyes was an United States-born, Harvard University-trained architect and industrial designer, who worked on projects for IBM, most famously the IBM Selectric typewriter and the IBM Aerospace Research Center in Los Angeles, California....
  • IM Pei, Pritzker Prize Laureate
  • Henry N. Cobb
    Henry N. Cobb

    Henry N. Cobb is an United States architect and founding partner with I.M. Pei of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, an international architectural firm based in New York City....
  • Paul Rudolph
    Paul Rudolph (architect)

    Paul Marvin Rudolph was an United States architect and the dean of the Yale School of Architecture for six years, known for his cubism building designs and highly complex floor plans....
  • Yoshio Taniguchi
    Yoshio Taniguchi

    Yoshio Taniguchi is a Japanese architect best known for his redesign of the Museum of Modern Art in New York which was reopened November 20, 2004....
  • John Andrews
    Brutalist architecture

    Brutalist architecture is a style of architecture which flourished from the 1950s to the mid 1970s, spawned from the Modern architecture movement....
    , designer of the GSD's Gund Hall
  • Dan Kiley
    Dan Kiley

    Daniel Urban Kiley was a noted American Landscape architecture in the modernist style....
    , modernist landscape architect
  • Garrett Eckbo
    Garrett Eckbo

    Garrett Eckbo was an United States landscape architect notable for his seminal 1950 book Landscape for Living....
    , modernist landscape architect
  • Ian McHarg
    Ian McHarg

    Ian L. McHarg was born in Glasgow, Scotland and became a landscape architect and a renowned writer on regional planning using natural systems....
    , landscape planner, GIS development
  • Christopher Alexander
    Christopher Alexander

    Christopher Alexander is an architect noted for his theories about design, and for more than 200 building projects in California, Japan, Mexico and around the world....
    , architect, A Pattern Language author
  • Joshua Prince-Ramus
    Joshua Prince-Ramus

    Joshua Prince-Ramus is president and principal of . He was a founding partner of OMA New York?the American branch of the Rotterdam-based Office for Metropolitan Architecture ?and served as its director until redefining the U.S....
  • Farshid Moussavi
    Farshid Moussavi

    Farshid Moussavi is an architect, co-founder of Foreign Office Architects , and "Professor in Practice of Architecture" at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, USA....
  • Michele Michahelles
    Michele Michahelles

    Michele Michahelles is an Italian and Swiss architect, best known for his work in Paris with MBA, the Marcel Breuer and Associates practice.Michahelles was born in Florence into a prestigious artistic family that included the American sculptor Hiram Powers, painter Ruggero Michahelles, the Futurist designer and visionary Ernesto Michahelle...
    , Paris-based architect, led restoration of Les Invalides
    Les Invalides

    Les Invalides in Paris, France, is a complex of buildings in the city's 7th arrondissement of Paris containing museums and monuments, all relating to the military history of France, as well as a hospital and a retirement home for war veterans, the building's original purpose....
  • Hideo Sasaki
    Hideo Sasaki

    Hideo Sasaki Influential Japanese American Landscape architecture....
    , landscape architect, former department chair, founder of Sasaki Associates and Sasaki Walker Associates
  • Bruno Zevi
    Bruno Zevi

    Bruno Zevi was an Italy architect, historian, professor, curator, author and editor. Zevi was a vocal critic of 'classicising' modern architecture and postmodernism....
    , architect, critic, and historian


Current faculty

  • Preston Scott Cohen
    Preston Scott Cohen

    Preston Scott Cohen is a Boston based designer and the Gerald M. McCue Professor in Architecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design. He is also the Director of the Architecture degree program at the GSD....
  • Herzog & de Meuron
    Herzog & de Meuron

    Herzog & de Meuron Architekten, BSA/SIA/ETH is a Swiss architecture firm, founded and headquartered in Basel, Switzerland in 1978. The careers of founders and senior partners Jacques Herzog , and Pierre de Meuron , closely paralleled one another, with both attending the ETH Z?rich in Z?rich....
    , Pritzker Prize Laureates
  • Rem Koolhaas
    Rem Koolhaas

    Remment Lucas Koolhaas, , is a Dutch architect, architectural theory, urbanist and "Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design" at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, USA....
    , Pritzker Prize Laureate
  • Rafael Moneo
    Rafael Moneo

    Jos? Rafael Moneo Vall?s is a Spain architect. He was born in Tudela, Spain, and won the Pritzker Prize for architecture in 1996. He studied at the ETSAM, Technical University of Madrid from which he received his architectural degree in 1961....
    , Pritzker Prize Laureate
  • Farshid Moussavi
    Farshid Moussavi

    Farshid Moussavi is an architect, co-founder of Foreign Office Architects , and "Professor in Practice of Architecture" at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, USA....
  • Martha Schwartz
    Martha Schwartz

    Martha Schwartz, born 1950, is an United States landscape architect. Her background is in the fine arts as well as landscape architecture, and her projects range from private to urban scale....
    , landscape architect
  • John R Stilgoe, landscape historian
  • Michael Van Valkenburgh
    Michael Van Valkenburgh

    Michael R. Van Valkenburgh is an American Landscape Architect and educator who currently resides in the West Village of New York City. He has worked on a wide variety of projects in the United States, Canada, Korea, and France including public parks, college campuses, sculpture gardens, city courtyards, corporate landscapes, and private garde...
    , landscape architect
  • Mack Scogin, Professor in Practice


Notable former faculty

  • Kenneth John Conant
    Kenneth John Conant

    Kenneth John Conant was an American architectural historian specializing in medieval architecture.Conant was born in Neenah, Wisconsin and studied at Harvard University in 1911....
  • Walter Gropius
    Walter Gropius

    Walter Adolph Georg Gropius was a Germany architect and founder of Bauhaus who along with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier, is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modern architecture....
    , founder of Bauhaus
    Bauhaus

    ' is the common term for the ', a school in Germany that combined crafts and the fine arts, and was famous for the approach to design that it publicized and taught....
  • Marcel Breuer
    Marcel Breuer

    Marcel Lajos Breuer , architect and furniture designer, was an influential Hungary-born modernism of Jewish descent. One of the masters of Modernism, Breuer displayed interest in modular construction and simple forms....
  • Martin Wagner
    Martin Wagner (architect)

    Martin Wagner was a German architect, city planner, and author, best known as the driving force behind the construction of modernist housing projects in interwar Berlin....
    , German architect and housing expert
  • Sigfried Giedion
    Sigfried Giedion

    Sigfried Giedion was a Bohemia-born Swiss historian and critic of architecture.His ideas and books, Space Time and Architecture, and Mechanization Takes Command, had an important conceptual influence on the members of the Independent Group at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in the 1950's era....
  • Josep Lluis Sert
    Josep Lluís Sert

    Josep Llu?s Sert i L?pez was a Spain architect from Catalonia.Born in Barcelona, he showed keen interest in the works of his uncle, the painter Josep Maria Sert and of Antoni Gaud?....
    , dean of the GSD from 1953-1969 and often credited with being instrumental in bringing modernist architecture to the United States
  • Henry N. Cobb
    Henry N. Cobb

    Henry N. Cobb is an United States architect and founding partner with I.M. Pei of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, an international architectural firm based in New York City....
  • Joseph Hudnut, the GSD's first dean
  • Moshe Safdie
    Moshe Safdie

    Moshe Safdie, Order of Canada is an architect and urban designer. He was born in the city of Haifa, British Mandate of Palestine now Israel....
  • Norman Newton, landscape historian
  • J. B. Jackson
    J. B. Jackson

    John Brinckerhoff Jackson was a writer, publisher, instructor, and sketch artist in landscape design. Herbert Muschamp, New York Times architecture critic, stated that J.B....
    , vernacular American landscape writer
  • Zaha Hadid
    Zaha Hadid

    Zaha Hadid , Order of British Empire is a notable Iraqis in the United Kingdom deconstructivism architect....
    , Pritzker Prize Laureate
  • Michael Sorkin
    Michael Sorkin

    Michael Sorkin Michael Sorkin, is the Founder of Michael Sorkin Studio in New York City, devoted to both practical and theoretical projects at all scales with a special interest in the city....
  • Christopher Tunnard
    Christopher Tunnard

    Christopher Tunnard was an Canada-born landscape architect, garden designer and author of Gardens in the Modern Landscape . He was the cousin of the British surrealist artist John Tunnard ....
    , landscape architect
  • Peter Walker
    Peter Walker

    Peter Walker may refer to:* Peter Walker, Baron Walker of Worcester, British politician* Peter Walker , American landscape architect* Peter Walker , British racing driver...
    , landscape architect
  • Monica Ponce de Leon
    Monica Ponce de Leon

    Monica Ponce de Leon is a Venezuelan-born architect and educator based in Ann Arbor, MI and Boston, MA. She is founding partner with Nader Tehrani in the award-winning firm Office dA, and Dean and Eliel Saarinen Collegiate Professor at the A....


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