The Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) is the

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of design at

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, a private

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. It offers master's and doctoral programs in

architecture Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and constructing buildings ...

landscape architecture Landscape architecture is the design of outdoor areas, landmarks, and structures to achieve environmental, social-behavioural, or aesthetic outcomes. It involves the systematic design and general engineering of various structures for constructio ...

urban planning Urban planning, also known as town planning, city planning, regional planning, or rural planning, is a technical and political process that is focused on the development and design of land use and the built environment, including air, water ...

urban design Urban design is an approach to the design of buildings and the spaces between them that focuses on specific design processes and outcomes. In addition to designing and shaping the physical features of towns, cities, and regional spaces, urban de ...

real estate Real estate is property consisting of land and the buildings on it, along with its natural resources such as crops, minerals or water; immovable property of this nature; an interest vested in this (also) an item of real property, (more genera ...

, design engineering, and design studies. The GSD has over 13,000 alumni and has graduated many famous

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s, and

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s. The school is considered a global academic leader in the design fields. The GSD has the world's oldest

program (founded in 1893) and North America's oldest

program (founded in 1900). Architecture was first taught at Harvard University in 1874. 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.

History

Architecture

Charles Eliot Norton brought the first

classes to Harvard University in 1874.

Urban planning and design

In 1900, the first

courses were taught at Harvard University, and by 1909, urban planning courses taught by

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were added into Harvard's design curriculum as part of the landscape architecture department. In 1923, a specialization in urban planning was established under the degree program of Master in Landscape Architecture. In 1929, North America's first urban planning degree (at graduate level) was established at Harvard under short-term funding from the Rockefeller Foundation. The planning program migrated to the Graduate School of Design in 1936. Then in 1981, the then City and Regional Planning Program under John Kain ceased at the Graduate School of Design and was dispersed to the Kennedy School of Government and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. In 1984, the Department of Urban Planning and Design was formed under Dean

Gerald M. McCue Gerald Mallon McCue (born 5 December 1928) is an American architect. McCue's is a native of Woodland, California. His parents were Floyd F. McCue and Lenore Mallon. McCue earned bachelor's and master's degrees in architecture from the University ...

with the inclusion of the Urban Design Program. Then in 1994, the Urban Planning program was officially returned to the Graduate School of Design under the aegis of

Albert Carnesale Albert Carnesale (born July 2, 1936) is an American academic and a specialist in arms control and national security. He is a former chancellor of the University of California, Los Angeles, provost of Harvard University, and dean of the Harvard K ...

, the Dean of the Kennedy School of Government, and Peter G. Rowe, the Dean of the Faculty of Design; with the first class entering in academic year 1994–1995. At the time, this program was envisioned as a physical planning program. In 2021, the Department of Urban Planning and Design assumed responsibility for a third graduate degree, the Master in Real Estate (MRE).

Landscape architecture

In 1893, the nation's first professional course in

was offered at Harvard University. In 1900, the world's first landscape architecture program was established by

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and Arthur A. Shurcliff. The School of Landscape Architecture was established in 1913. Lester Collins who studied there, graduating in 1942, became professor after World War II, and soon Dean of the course.

Establishment

The three major design professions (architecture, urban planning, and landscape architecture) were officially united in 1936 to form the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Joseph F. Hudnut (1886–1968) was an American architect scholar and professor who was the first dean. In 1937,

Walter Gropius Walter Adolph Georg Gropius (18 May 1883 – 5 July 1969) was a German-American architect and founder of the Bauhaus School, who, along with Alvar Aalto, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright, is widely regarded as one ...

joined the GSD faculty as chair of the Department of Architecture and brought modern designers, including

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to help revamp the curriculum. In 1960,

Josep Lluís Sert Josep Lluís Sert i López (; 1 July 190215 March 1983) was a Spanish architect and city planner. Biography Born in Barcelona, Catalonia, Sert showed keen interest in the works of his uncle, the painter Josep Maria Sert, and of Gaudí. He ...

established the nation's first Urban Design program. George Gund Hall, which is the present iconic home GSD, opened in 1972 and was designed by Australian architect and GSD graduate John Andrews. 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

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(GIS) emerged in the late 1960s and 1970s. More recent research initiatives include the Design Robotics Group, a unit that investigates new material systems and fabrication technologies in the context of architectural design and construction.

Deans

Academics

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The degrees granted in the masters programs include the Master of

Architecture Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and constructing buildings ...

(MArch), Master in

Landscape Architecture Landscape architecture is the design of outdoor areas, landmarks, and structures to achieve environmental, social-behavioural, or aesthetic outcomes. It involves the systematic design and general engineering of various structures for constructio ...

(MLA), Master of Architecture in

Urban Design Urban design is an approach to the design of buildings and the spaces between them that focuses on specific design processes and outcomes. In addition to designing and shaping the physical features of towns, cities, and regional spaces, urban de ...

(MAUD), Master of Landscape Architecture in Urban Design (MLAUD), Master in

Urban Planning Urban planning, also known as town planning, city planning, regional planning, or rural planning, is a technical and political process that is focused on the development and design of land use and the built environment, including air, water ...

(MUP), Master in Real Estate (MRE), Master in Design Engineering (MDE), Master in Design Studies (MDes). The school also offers the Doctor of Design (DDes) and jointly administers a

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(PhD) degree in architecture, urban planning, and landscape architecture with the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. *

Master of Architecture The “Master of Architecture”(M.Arch or MArch) or a “Bachelor of Architecture” is a professional degree in architecture, qualifying the graduate to move through the various stages of professional accreditation (internship, exams) that resu ...

(MArch I) *

(MArch II) (Post-professional) *Master of Architecture in Urban Design (MAUD) (Post-professional) * Master in Urban Planning (MUP) *Master in Real Estate (MRE) * Master of Landscape Architecture (MLA) *Master in Design Engineering (MDE) *Master of Landscape Architecture in Urban Design (MLAUD) *Master in Design Studies (MDes) *Doctor of Design (DDes) *Doctor of Philosophy in Architecture, Urban Planning, and Landscape Architecture (PhD)

Rankings

As of 2016, the program's ten-year

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ranking places it first, overall, on ''DesignIntelligence's'' ranking of programs accredited by the National Architectural Accrediting Board.

Executive Education

Executive Education operates within GSD providing professional development classes. The Advanced Management Development Program in Real Estate (AMDP) is a year-long executive development course open to established real estate professionals. Upon graduating from AMDP, participants are full-fledged

Alumni. Throughout the year, Executive Education offers short duration programs in the fields of architecture, urban planning, design, and real estate to a diverse audience of learners.

Student body

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

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. The average student is 27 years old. GSD students are represented by the

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(HGC), a university-wide student government organization. There are also several dozen internal GSD student clubs.

Research and publications

In addition to its degree programs, the GSD administers the Loeb Fellowship, and numerous research initiatives such as the Zofnass Program for Sustainable Infrastructure. The school publishes the bi-annual Harvard Design Magazine, Platform, and other design books and studio works.

Design Research Labs

The GSD Design Labs synthesize theoretical and applied knowledge through research with the intent to enable design to be an agent of change in society. There are seven current labs: Material Processes and Systems Group; Energy, Environments and Design; New Geographies Lab; Responsive Environments and Artifacts Lab; Social Agency Lab; Urban Theory Lab; Geometry Lab.

Campus

The GSD campus is located northeast of

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and across the street from Memorial Hall. Gund Hall is the main building of the GSD, and it houses most of the student space and faculty offices. Other nearby buildings include space for the school's Design Research Labs, faculty offices, the Loeb Fellowship program office, and research space for students, including those in the MDes and DDes programs.

Gund Hall

Gund Hall is the main building, which has studio spaces and offices for approximately 800 students and more than 100 faculty and staff, lecture and seminar rooms, workshops and darkrooms, an audiovisual center, computer facilities, Chauhaus, the cafeteria, a project room, Piper Auditorium, and the Frances Loeb Library. The central studio space, also known as the Trays, extends through five levels under a stepped, clear-span roof. Gund Hall has a yard that comprises a basketball court and is often used for events, as an exhibition area for class projects, and as the setting for commencement ceremonies. The building was designed by architect

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and supervised by structural engineer William LeMessurier both GSD alumni.

Frances Loeb Library

The Frances Loeb Library, is the main library of the Graduate School of Design. The library has a collection of over 300,000 books and journals. It also has a Materials and Visual Resources Department, and the Special Collections Department, which houses the GSD's rare books and manuscript collection.

Fabrication Lab

The Fabrication Lab has both traditional tools and state-of-the-art technology available for model making and prototyping to faculty research and student course work. The Fabrication Lab has a full wood shop, metals shop, printing labs, 3D printing, CNC tools, robotic machines,

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machines, etc.

Notable alumni and faculty

As of 2013, the GSD had over 13,000 alumni in 96 countries. The GSD had 77 faculty members and 129 visiting faculty members. 45% of the faculty members were born outside of the United States. Turner 07 FGLecture

Alumni

* Alejandro Zaera-Polo *

Alexandra Lange Alexandra Lange is an architecture and design critic and author based in New York. The author of a series of critically acclaimed books, Lange is the architecture critic for ''Curbed.'' She has bylines published in ''The New Yorker'', ''The New ...

, critic * Andy Fillmore, urban designer and incumbent member of the Canadian parliament for Halifax *

Anita Berrizbeitia Anita de la Rosa Berrizbeitia (born 1957) is a landscape theorist, teacher, and author. She continues to play an integral role in the renewed visibility of landscape architecture as a cultural practice. She is currently Professor of Landscape Arch ...

, landscape architect and Chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture, Harvard University GSD *

Bruno Zevi Bruno Zevi (22 January 1918 – 9 January 2000) was an Italian architect, historian, professor, curator, author, and editor. Zevi was a vocal critic of "classicizing" modern architecture and postmodernism. Early life Zevi was born and died i ...

, architect, critic, and historian *

, designer of the GSD's Gund Hall *

Charles Jencks Charles Alexander Jencks (21 June 1939 – 13 October 2019) was an American cultural theorist, landscape designer, architectural historian, and co-founder of the Maggie’s Cancer Care Centres. He published over thirty books and became famous ...

, landscape architect and architectural theorist *

Christopher Alexander Christopher Wolfgang John Alexander (4 October 1936 – 17 March 2022) was an Austrian-born British-American architect and design theorist. He was an emeritus professor at the University of California, Berkeley. His theories about the nature o ...

, architect, co-author of '' A Pattern Language'' * Christopher Charles Benninger, architect *

Lester Collins (landscape architect) Lester Albertson Collins (1914–1993) was an American landscape architect. He studied landscape architecture at Harvard, including studies of gardens in East Asia in 1940. After World War II, he began to teach as a professor at Harvard. Collins ...

* Shaun Donovan (born 1966), former US Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and Director of the

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, running for

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* Cornelia Oberlander, landscape architect *

Dan Kiley Daniel Urban Kiley (2 September 1912 – 21 February 2004) was an American landscape architect, who worked in the style of modern architecture. Kiley designed over one-thousand landscape projects including Gateway Arch National Park in St. Lou ...

, modernist landscape architect * Danny Forster, architect and television host *

David Gee Cheng David Gee Cheng (1 September 191516 September 2005) was a Chinese-born Indonesian and American engineer and real estate developer who became the Indonesian Deputy Minister for City Planning and Construction from 1964 until 1966. Early life Che ...

, engineer and real estate developer, former Indonesian Deputy Minister for City Planning and Construction *

Edward Durell Stone Edward Durell Stone (March 9, 1902 – August 6, 1978) was an American architect known for the formal, highly decorative buildings he designed in the 1950s and 1960s. His works include the Museum of Modern Art, in New York City, the Museo de ...

, Modernist architect * Edward Durell Stone Jr., landscape architect, founder of EDSA * Edward Larrabee Barnes, prolific Modernist architect * Eliot Noyes *

Elizabeth Whittaker Elizabeth Whittaker is an American architect, designer and educator based in Boston, Massachusetts. She is the founder of Merge Architects in Boston and Associate Professor in Practice of Architecture at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard U ...

, architect, founder of Merge Architects * Farshid Moussavi *

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, '' Pritzker Prize Laureate'', awarded honorary doctorate, studied urban planning *

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, Architect *

Fumihiko Maki is a Japanese architect who teaches at Keio University SFC. In 1993, he received the Pritzker Prize for his work, which often explores pioneering uses of new materials and fuses the cultures of east and west. Early life Maki was born in Tokyo. ...

, ''Pritzker Prize Laureate'' *

Garrett Eckbo Garrett Eckbo (November 28, 1910 – May 14, 2000) was an American landscape architect notable for his seminal 1950 book '' Landscape for Living''. Youth He was born in Cooperstown, New York to Axel Eckbo, a businessman, and Theodora Munn Eckbo ...

, modernist landscape architect *

George Ranalli George Joseph Ranalli (born 1946) is an American modernist architect, scholar, curator, and fellow of the American Institute of Architects. He is based in New York City. Early life and education A native of The Bronx, New York, of Italian Ame ...

* Grace La, architect * Grant Jones, landscape architect * Harry Seidler * Henry N. Cobb * Hideo Sasaki, landscape architect, former department chair, founder of

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and Sasaki Walker Associates * Hugh Stubbins, architect * Ian McHarg, landscape planner, GIS development *

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– website of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners ( ; ; April 26, 1917 – May 16, 2019) was ...

, ''Pritzker Prize Laureate'' *

Jack Dangermond Jack Dangermond (born 1945) is an American billionaire businessman and environmental scientist, who co-founded, with Laura Dangermond, in 1969 the Environmental Systems Research Institute (Esri), a privately held geographic information systems ...

, landscape architecture, GIS development, co-founder of Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) *

Jeanne Gang Jeanne Gang (born March 19, 1964) is an American architect and the founder and leader of Studio Gang (established in 1997), an architecture and urban design practice with offices in Chicago, New York, and San Francisco. Gang was first widely re ...

* John Hejduk *

Joshua Prince-Ramus Joshua Ramus (born August 11, 1969) is founding principal of REX, an architecture and design firm based in New York City, whose name signifies a re-appraisal (RE) of architecture (X). His current projects include The Ronald O. Perelman Perfor ...

Julian Wood Glass Jr. Julian Wood Glass Jr. (February 7, 1910 – February 27, 1992) was a businessman, art collector, and philanthropist who created the Glen Burnie Gardens with R. Lee Taylor. He also ensured the preservation of Glen Burnie Historic House. Glass Jr ...

, businessman, philanthropist * Ken Smith (architect)，landscape architect, educator * Kongjian Yu, landscape architect, educator, founder of Turenscape, Peking * Lawrence Halprin, landscape architect *

Mario Torroella Mario Torroella (born March 30, 1935) is a Cuban-American visual artist and architect based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is a co-founder of the firm HMFH Architects and a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects. His art is closely asso ...

, architect and artist, co-founder of HMFH Architects *

Meejin Yoon Meejin Yoon (born 1972) is a Korean-American architect, designer, and educator. In 2014, Yoon was appointed as the first female head of the Department of Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In July 2018, she was named the G ...

, architect and Dean of Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, & Planning *

Michael Graves Michael Graves (July 9, 1934 – March 12, 2015) was an American architect, designer, and educator, as well as principal of Michael Graves and Associates and Michael Graves Design Group. He was a member of The New York Five and the Memphis Gr ...

Michael Maltzan Michael Maltzan is the principal architect at Michael Maltzan Architecture (MMA), a Los Angeles-based architecture firm. He received a Master of Architecture degree from Harvard University and both a Bachelor of Architecture degree and a Bachelor ...

, architect * Michel Mossessian, architect, Design Principal and Founder of mossessian & partners *

Michele Michahelles Michele Michahelles (b. Italy, 1936) 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 Am ...

, Paris-based architect, led restoration of

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, landscape architect * Mitchell Joachim *

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, dean and professor,

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; principal, MPdL Studio * Richard T. Murphy Jr. * Nader Tehrani (g. 1991) – Dean, The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of the Cooper Union, Founding Principal of NADAAA * Paul Rudolph *

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, ''Pritzker Prize Laureate'' * Preston Scott Cohen, architect * Robert F. Fox Jr. * Robert Geddes, architect and Dean of

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School of Architecture * Roger Montgomery, first HUD Urban Designer, dean at U.C. Berkeley * Shaun Donovan, former Secretary of

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, ''Pritzker Prize Laureate'' *

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, architectural historian * William LeMessurier, structural engineer founder of

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Yoshio Taniguchi Yoshio Taniguchi (谷口吉生, ''Taniguchi Yoshio''; born 1937) is a Japanese architect best known for his redesign of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, which was reopened November 20, 2004. Critics have emphasized Taniguchi's fusion o ...

Current faculty

Notable faculty currently at the school include

, Eve Blau,

Sean Canty Sean Canty is an American architect, cultural activist and academic. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design in Cambridge. Canty is co-Director of Office III, an experimental architectural collec ...

Jennifer Bonner Jennifer R. Bonner (born 1979) is an American architect. She is an associate professor and Co-Director of the Master in Architecture II Program at Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Early life and education Bonner was born and raised ...

, Hanif Kara, Jorge Silvetti, Antoine Picon, Farshid Moussavi,

, Peter G. Rowe,

John R. Stilgoe John Robert Stilgoe (born 1949) is a historian and photographer who is the Robert and Lois Orchard Professor in the History of Landscape at the Visual and Environmental Studies Department of Harvard University, where he has been teaching since 197 ...

K. Michael Hays Kenneth Michael Hays (born October 18, 1952) is an American architectural historian and professor. He currently serves as Eliot Noyes Professor of Architectural Theory at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. He is also co-director of ...

, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Martha Schwartz, Mohsen Mostafavi, Preston Scott Cohen, Rahul Mehrotra,

Rem Koolhaas Remment Lucas Koolhaas (; born 17 November 1944) is a Dutch architect, architectural theorist, urbanist and Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. He is often cited as a r ...

, Grace La, Rafael Moneo, Sarah M. Whiting, Toshiko Mori, Mark Lee, and

Sharon Johnston Sharon Johnston (born 1943) is a Canadian author who was the 55th viceregal consort of Canada, due to being the wife of David Johnston, the 28th Governor General of Canada. Life and career A native of Sault Ste. Marie, she completed her st ...

Emeritus faculty

* Alan A. Altshuler

Former faculty

* Barbara Bestor * Tatiana Bilbao *

* Bjarke Ingels, Visiting Professor * Christopher Tunnard, landscape architect *

Eduard Sekler Eduard Franz Sekler (30 September 1920 – 1 May 2017) was an architectural historian and Osgood Hooker Professor of Visual Art Emeritus and professor of architecture emeritus at Harvard University. Biography A native of Vienna, Eduard Sekler earn ...

* George Hargreaves, landscape architect * Gerhard Kallmann, Kallmann & McKinnell, designer of

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* Henry N. Cobb, Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, designer of

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in Boston * Hugh Stubbins, architect, designer of

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* J. B. Jackson, vernacular American landscape writer * Jaqueline Tyrwhitt, 1955–1969 *

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, 1998–2009 * Jerzy Sołtan, 1959-1979 *

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, dean of the GSD from 1953 to 1969 and often credited with being instrumental in bringing modernist architecture to the United States *

, Visiting Professor * Philippe Rahm, Visiting Professor *

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* Martin Wagner, German architect and housing expert * Michael McKinnell, Kallmann & McKinnell, designer of Boston City Hall *

Moshe Safdie Moshe Safdie ( he, משה ספדיה; born July 14, 1938) is an architect, urban planner, educator, theorist, and author, with Israeli, Canadian, and American citizenship. He is known for incorporating principles of socially responsible des ...

, designer of

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* Peter Walker, landscape architect * Rick Joy, Visiting Professor * Serge Chermayeff, 1953–1962 *

Sigfried Giedion Sigfried Giedion (sometimes misspelled Siegfried Giedion; 14 April 1888, Prague – 10 April 1968, Zürich) was a Bohemian-born Swiss historian and critic of architecture. His ideas and books, '' Space, Time and Architecture'', and ''Mechani ...

, author of the highly influential history '' Space, Time and Architecture'' * Theodora Kimball Hubbard, librarian, 1911-1924 *

, 1937–1952; founder of

Bauhaus The Staatliches Bauhaus (), commonly known as the Bauhaus (), was a German art school operational from 1919 to 1933 that combined crafts and the fine arts.Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 4th edn., 2 ...

Zaha Hadid Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid ( ar, زها حديد ''Zahā Ḥadīd''; 31 October 1950 – 31 March 2016) was an Iraqi-British architect, artist and designer, recognised as a major figure in architecture of the late 20th and early 21st centu ...

, ''Pritzker Prize Laureate''

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* {{Authority control Graduate School of Design 1936 establishments in Massachusetts