New Harvard dean has designs on our future « Architecture Daily

From the Architecture Daily blog a link to a Boston.com story about the new dean at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. The interview with Mohsen Mostafavi discusses his views on design and urbanism and his plans for the future of the GSD.

You were an associate professor of architecture at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design in the ’90s and director of the professional degree programs. How has the school changed since then? I think there’s a great deal of fascination these days with more socially based, activist forms of practice. I think the students are more and more conscious of both the significance of signature architecture but at the same time, the potential alternatives to that form of practice. So, specifically, how can we be ethically responsible and also not sacrifice the commitment to design?

New Harvard dean has designs on our future « Architecture Daily