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Harvard University Graduate School of Design

Harvard Graduate School of Design
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Coat of arms of the School
Type Private
Established 1874 (First courses taught)
1936 (GSD established)
Endowment US$396 Million
Dean Mohsen Mostafavi
Academic staff
206
Students 878
362 (Architecture)
161 (Urban Planning)
182 (Landscape Architecture)
173 (Doctoral/Design Studies)
Location Gund Hall, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Campus Urban
Affiliations Harvard University
Website gsd.harvard.edu

The Harvard Graduate School of Design (also known as The GSD) is a professional graduate school at Harvard University, located at Gund Hall, Cambridge, Massachusetts. The GSD offers masters and doctoral programs in architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, urban design, real estate, design engineering, and design studies.

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 the design fields.

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 courses were 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.

The market value of the school's endowment for the fiscal year 2013 was approximately $396 million.

Charles Eliot Norton brought the first architecture classes to Harvard University in 1874. By 1893, courses dedicated exclusively to architecture were offered and by 1895, an architecture degree was established. The Faculty of Architecture was established in 1913.

In 1900, the first urban planning courses were taught at Harvard University, and by 1909, urban planning was added into Harvard's design curriculum. In 1923, North America's first urban planning degree was established at Harvard. In 1980, the program was temporarily moved to the Harvard Kennedy School of Government until it returned to the GSD in 1984.


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