05/14/2008, 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Learning Units: 3.00-Subway and Walking Tour
Training Units: 0.75-Training Area 17 (Planning)
This tour of Harvard's campus will cover a lot of ground, so come prepared to enjoy a good, brisk walk. We will leave Holyoke Center, traveling through Harvard Yard past the Widener Library on our way to the Carpentar Center, Le Corbusier's only building in the United States.
We then walk along Bow and Arrow streets, past the offices of Harvard Lampoon on our way to the famed Peabody Terrace, Luis Sert's addition to the campus from 1962. Along the way we will consider complex issues of "town and gown" faced over recent decades as Harvard's campus has grown far beyond the Yard.
We then cross the Weeks Footbridge where we will view the Harvard Business School (HBS) from the banks of the Charles River, including a look at Machado and Silvetti Associates' new dormitory. Tour participants will learn about Harvard's dramatic plans for reinventing its presence on the Boston side of the river with plans for a new Life Science campus and much more. We end the tour at Moshe Safdie and Associates' chapel at the center of the HBS campus.
Learning Objectives:
- Review and analyze of the complexities of institutional expansion in Cambridge and Boston, specifically the growth of the wealthiest university in the world
- Explore various examples of world-class design, including work by Le Corbusier, Luis Sert, and Machado Silvetti
- Summarize the challenges of building an entire new campus for life sciences on old industrial land that abuts an urban neighborhood
TP01b Wednesday, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., $70
Core Discipline: Design
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