The Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) is the graduate school of design at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, established in 1936. It offers masters and doctoral programs in architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, urban design, real estate, design engineering and design studies, and has graduated more than 13,000 alumni who include many prominent architects, urban planners and landscape architects. The school currently has 206 faculty members and 878 students and is regarded as a leading academic centre for the design disciplines worldwide.
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Organization TypeGraduate School of Design at Harvard University 1 Founded Year HeadquartersCambridge, Massachusetts, United States 1 Organization Type
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Maki also took his master of architecture at the school.
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Pei earned a master of architecture degree at Harvard in 1946, studying under Walter Gropius.
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Johnson earned a bachelor of architecture degree at Harvard in 1943, studying under Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer.
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Gropius emigrated to the United States in 1937 and chaired Harvard's department of architecture until 1952.
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The Graduate School of Design was officially established in 1936
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The Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) is the graduate school of design at Harvard University, a private Ivy League research university
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- Associated With: I. M. Pei
- Associated With: Philip Johnson
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he joined the faculty at Harvard's GSD from 1962 to 1965
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