Harvard Graduate School of Design
The Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) is the graduate school of design at Harvard University, a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It offers master's and doctoral programs in architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, urban design, real estate,[1] design engineering, and design studies.
Type
Private graduate school of design
- 1874 (first courses taught)
- 1936 (GSD established)
206
- 878
- 362 (architecture)
- 161 (urban planning and design)
- 182 (landscape architecture)
- 173 (doctoral/design studies)
Urban
The GSD has over 13,000 alumni and has graduated many famous architects, urban planners, and landscape architects. The school is considered a global academic leader in design fields.[2][3]
The GSD has the world's oldest landscape architecture program (founded in 1893) and North America's oldest urban planning program (founded in 1900). Architecture was first taught at Harvard University in 1874.[4] The Graduate School of Design was officially established in 1936, combining the three fields of architecture, urban planning, and landscape architecture under one graduate school.[5]
(MLA I)
Master in Landscape Architecture
(MLA I AP)
Master in Landscape Architecture
(MLA II) (Post-professional)
Master in Landscape Architecture
Master of Landscape Architecture in Urban Design (MLAUD) (Post-professional)
(MArch I)
Master of Architecture
(MArch II) (Post-professional)
Master of Architecture
Master of Architecture in Urban Design (MAUD) (Post-professional)
(MUP)
Master in Urban Planning
Master in Real Estate (MRE)
Master in Design Engineering (MDE)
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Master in Design Studies (MDes)
[14]
Doctor of Design (DDes)
Doctor of Philosophy in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning (PhD)
[15]
Student body[edit]
As of 2012–2013, there were 878 students enrolled. 362 students or 42% were enrolled in architecture, 182 students or 21% in landscape architecture, 161 students or 18% in urban planning, and 173 students or 20% in doctoral or design studies programs. Approximately, 65% of students were Americans. The average student is 27 years old.[17] GSD students are represented by the Harvard Graduate Council (HGC), a university-wide student government organization. There are also several dozen internal GSD student clubs.[18]
architect
Alejandro Zaera-Polo
critic
Alexandra Lange
architect and architectural technologist
Martin Bechthold
landscape architect and former Chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture, Harvard University
Anita Berrizbeitia
architect, critic, and historian
Bruno Zevi
designer of the GSD's Gund Hall
John Andrews
landscape architect and architectural theorist
Charles Jencks
architect
Christopher Charles Benninger
Lester Collins (landscape architect)
(born 1966), former US Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and Director of the Office of Management and Budget, running for Mayor of New York City
Shaun Donovan
landscape architect
Cornelia Oberlander
modernist landscape architect
Dan Kiley
architect and television host
Danny Forster
architect and professor; former Chair of Howard University School of Architecture[26]
Louis Edwin Fry Sr.
engineer and real estate developer, former Indonesian Deputy Minister for City Planning and Construction
David Gee Cheng
Modernist architect
Edward Durell Stone
landscape architect, founder of EDSA
Edward Durell Stone Jr.
prolific Modernist architect
Edward Larrabee Barnes
Eliot Noyes
architect, founder of Merge Architects
Elizabeth Whittaker
Farshid Moussavi
Architect
Frida Escobedo
Pritzker Prize Laureate
Fumihiko Maki
modernist landscape architect
Garrett Eckbo
George Ranalli
architect
Grace La
landscape architect
Grant Jones
Harry Seidler
Henry N. Cobb
landscape architect, former department chair, founder of Sasaki Associates and Sasaki Walker Associates
Hideo Sasaki
architect
Hugh Stubbins
landscape architect and landscape planner, GIS development
Ian McHarg
Pritzker Prize Laureate
IM Pei
landscape architecture, GIS development, co-founder of Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI)
Jack Dangermond
Jeanne Gang
John Hejduk
Joshua Prince-Ramus
landscape designer, author
Julia Watson
businessman, philanthropist
Julian Wood Glass Jr.
landscape architect, inaugural winner of Cornelia Hahn Oberlander International Landscape Architecture Prize from The Cultural Landscape Foundation
Julie Bargmann
，landscape architect, educator
Ken Smith (architect)
landscape architect, educator, founder of Turenscape, Peking, winner of The Cultural Landscape Foundation Cornelia Hahn Oberlander International Landscape Architecture Prize
Kongjian Yu
landscape architect
Lawrence Halprin
architect and artist, co-founder of HMFH Architects
Mario Torroella
architect and Dean of Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, & Planning
Meejin Yoon
Michael Graves
architect
Michael Maltzan
architect, Design Principal and Founder of mossessian & partners
Michel Mossessian
landscape architect
Mikyoung Kim
Mitchell Joachim
dean and professor, Princeton University School of Architecture; principal, MPdL Studio
Monica Ponce de Leon
architect, author, designer
Nalina Moses
Richard T. Murphy Jr.
Paul Rudolph
Peter Walker (landscape architect)
Pritzker Prize Laureate
Philip Johnson
architect
Preston Scott Cohen
Robert F. Fox Jr.
first HUD Urban Designer, dean at U.C. Berkeley
Roger Montgomery
Pritzker Prize Laureate
Thom Mayne
William Curtis, architectural historian
architect, founder of DnA Design and Architecture