Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Coat of arms of the School
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| Type | Private |
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| Established | 1874 (First courses taught) 1936 (GSD established) |
| Endowment | US$396 Million |
| Dean | Mohsen Mostafavi |
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Academic staff
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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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