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After Jose Luis Sert had designated one of his most brilliant student's. John Andres, to head the new Gund Hall design team, the design team decided that all the GSD's fragmented departments and their respective studio work areas should be united under one roof without division. The result of that much-debated vision of 5-tiered studio space covered by a 2001 freespanning roof...
There was considerable unhappiness within the GSD itself during 1969. Sert had resigned as dean, and Doebele was named acting dean to replace him. After Kilbridge assumed office in the summer of 1969, the GSD underwent a policy transformation...
...using the larger site to expand the building to its present size, about 155,000 square feet. While the committee worked out a detailed program, the Corporation made plans to engage an architect. The GSD faculty favored an international competition to select the design firm. According to Jose Louis Sert, dean of the Design School until the summer of 1969. President Pusey disliked the idea of a competition, and the suggestion was scrapped instead, each member of the GSD faculty was asked to submit a list of capable architects...
Although the selection process is unknown, the architect who was eventually hired, John Andrews, studied under Sert and received his degree from the GSD Although Sert refuses to divulge the contents of the list he submitted, he acknowledges great respect for Andrews. "He was one of my most brilliant students," Sert says...
...Sert had not kept a tight rein on the different departments, and some observers attribute the internal squabbling about Gund Hall to Sert's lack of control. Kilbridge, however, keeps a firm grip on the various factions, a policy that induced three GSD professors to bring grievance charges against him in early 1971. So the design firm had to content not only with usual production delays, but with the shaks at the GSD itself...