page_title: Harvard Graduate School of Design
section_title: Gund Hall
hierarchical_section_title: Harvard Graduate School of Design / Campus / Gund Hall
caption_attribution_description: English: GSD Gund Hall at 48 Quincy Street, Harvard University, as seen from outside Harvard Memorial Hall
context_page_description: The Harvard Graduate School of Design is a graduate school of design at Harvard University. Located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the GSD offers master's 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 and North America's oldest urban planning program. 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.
context_section_description: 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 John Andrews and supervised by structural engineer William LeMessurier both GSD alumni.
caption: Gund Hall, Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD)
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