Records of Graduate School of Design from the Office of the Dean, 1894-1980 (inclusive).

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Records of Graduate School of Design from the Office of the Dean, 1894-1980 (inclusive).

Includes administrative records from the Deans of the Graduate School of Design including G.H. Edgell, J. Hudnut, M. Kilbridge, J. Sert, and C. Killam. These records document the activities, goals, and development of the Design School. Topics include students, faculty, finances, fund-raising, construction of Gund Hall, and curriculum. Correspondents include faculty members, committees, departments, students, other Harvard agencies, and professional organizations. Consists chiefly of correspondence, but includes other forms of documentation such as personnel records, reports, minutes, agendas, student lists, and course problems.

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Harvard University Archives.

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Harvard University

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Harvard College was founded by a vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts on October 28, 1636 that allocated “400£ towards a schoale or colledge.” Subsequent legislative acts established the Board of Overseers, but it was the Charter of 1650 that created the Harvard Corporation as the College's primary governing board and defined its composition and authority. The College Charter became a contentious target for College officials, the Massachusetts Governor and General C...

Edgell, George Harold, 1887-1954

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Edgell (1887-1954) graduated from Harvard in 1909 and taught fine arts at Harvard. From the description of Papers of George Harold Edgell, 1929-1935 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973020 ...

Gund Hall (Cambridge, Mass.)

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Harvard University. School of Landscape Architecture.

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Gropius, Walter, 1883-1969

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Architect, educator. Studied architecture at the Universities of Charlottenburg-Berlin and Munich, Germany from 1903 to 1907. Founded and directed the Staatliches Bauhaus, Weimar in 1919, which Gropius moved to Dessau in 1925 and renamed "Bauhaus Dessau". Professor of Architecture in the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, 1937 and Chairman of the Department of Architecture from 1938 to 1952. Formed the Architects' Collaborative in Cambridge in 1946. For further information see James ...

Kilbridge, Maurice D., 1920-

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Warren, Charles, 1868-1954

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Lawyer and historian. From the description of Papers of Charles Warren, 1874-1954. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82466495 Charles Warren graduated from Harvard in 1889. From the description of Forensics, 1887-1888. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77073347 Lawyer. From the description of Reminiscences of Charles Warren : transcript, 1952. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309735506 Warren gr...

Hudnut, Joseph, 1886-1968

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Harvard University. Dept. of Architecture.

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Harvard university, Graduate school of design

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These models were created for the Whitney Museum of American Art exhibition: Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe, June 26-September 21, 2008. From the description of Models created after Buckminster Fuller designs by students of the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, 2008. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754865251 Maria Kohlrausch worked in Dept. of Landscape Architecture 1928-1950. She corresponded with Harvard University Graduate School of Design stude...

Sert, José Luis (1902-1983).

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Josep Lluis Sert received a degree in architecture in 1929 from Barcelona's ESA in the 1930s. Among the leading young Spanish architects in the 1930s, he gained an international reputation with his design for the Spanish Pavilion built for the 1937 Paris Exposition. Emigrating to the United states in 1941, he was from 1941-1958 a founding partner in Town Planning Associates and in 1955, he opened his own firm, Sert Jackson, & Associates, in Cambridge, MA. SJA's work included residences, muse...

Killam, Charles Wilson, 1871-1961.

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Killam taught architecture at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Charles Wilson Killam, 1938-1939 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973100 ...