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As part of a multi-year plan to expand its faculty, the Graduate School of Design (GSD) has created two professorships in real estate development and architecture, officials announced this week.
The architecture post has been wholly financed by a grant from a Japanese corporation and will probably be filled by next year, according to Polly Price, GSD's associate dean for administration. But the chair in real estate development, endowed by 13 individual and corporate donors, will require four to...
The architecture post was endowed by the KajimaCorporation, a Japanese construction anddevelopment company. Kajima's chief executiveofficer, Shoichi Kajima, is a 1957 GSD graduatewho is particularly interested in the"international significance of the GSD," Pricesaid.
The Architecture Department, the GSD's largest,has not decided in what specific area ofarchitecuture, such as legal or historical, toestablish the Kajima professorship, Price said.But the school's Committee on Appointments andPromotions hopes to recommend to McCue a candidatefor the professorship by the end of this academicyear, she said...
"The administration is trying to wrap this issue in diversity," said James M. Harmon '93, who will present the anti-randomization viewpoint. "It's an issue of choice. People should be able to choose what location, architecture and community they like best."