GSD News Archive: June 2008
His Highness the Aga Khan visits the GSD >> June 4, 2008 |
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Office designed by Adjunct Professor Leland Cott a showcase for clients >> Leland Cott, FAIA, co-founding principal of Bruner/Cott & Associates in Cambridge and an adjunct professor of urban design at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design noted, “We very much see our own space as an extension of who we are.” His firm moved into a building it bought and renovated 15 years ago. [Boston Business Journal; June 23, 2008] |
MArch II candidate Anthony Acciavatti receives Harvard grant to work in India >>
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Prof. Scott Cohen featured as new chair of Architecture Department >> (pdf file) [The Architect’s Newspaper; June, 11, 2008] |
Prof. Martha Schwartz unveils Icelandic installation at the Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland >> [Press Release, Martha Schwartz, Inc.] |
Housing project designed by Prof. Hashim Sarkis completed >> Designed by Hashim Sarkis, Aga Khan Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urbanism in Muslim Societies, the new residence is intended for fishermen and their families near the city of Tyre. Local and international dignitaries attended the opening.
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Prof. Monica Ponce de Leon named dean at University of Michigan Monica Ponce de Leon, Professor of Architecture and Director of the Digital Lab at the GSD, which she joined in 1996, has been appointed the new Dean of the A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, at the University of Michigan effective September 1, 2008. Monica Ponce de Leon is also a Principal in Office dA, an internationally known design practice that she launched with Nader Tehrani in Boston in 1991. The firm’s synthesis of research and design has led to a remarkable body of work that has been widely published and exhibited and has won numerous honors. Professor Ponce de Leon’s work addresses the critical importance of digital production to the future of the profession and the re-establishment of the architect’s role in the construction industry. Through her strong commitment to teaching and her successful practice she has proven her ability to link the profession and the academy. Professor Ponce de Leon received a Bachelor of Architecture degree in 1989 from the University of Miami and a Master of Architecture in Urban Design degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 1991. |
MDesS candidate Peter Davos awarded scholarship >>
[New England Real Estate Journal; June 27, 2008] |
Professor Michael Hays co-curates Buckminster Fuller exhibition at the Whitney Museum; Professor Antoine Picon included in Hays’ book on Fuller more >> |
GSD Students Offer Winter-City Vision for Burlington, VT |
Just a Minute with: Dutch architect Professor Rem Koolhaas more >> [Reuters; June 4, 2008] |
