The Harvard Graduate School of Design (also known as GSD) is a professional graduate school at Harvard University, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It offers several masters degree programs -- Master of Architecture (MArch), Master of Landscape Architecture (MLA), Master of Architecture in Urban Design (MAUD), Master of Landscape Architecture in Urban Design (MLAUD), Master of Urban Planning (MUP), Master of Design Studies (MDesS) in more than eight concentrations -- doctoral programs -- Doctor of Design (DDes) and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) -- several executive education programs and a career discovery program. It also administers the Loeb Fellowship and many research initiatives. The school also publishes the bi-annual Harvard Design Magazine and other design books and studio works.
The school's international faculty provide a broad range of design philosophies and visions. A leading industry survey has ranked the GSD's Department of Architecture number one in the United States for six consecutive years and the Department of Landscape Architecture number one for four consecutive years. The market value of the school's endowment for the fiscal year 2008 to 2009 was approximately $314 million. The school's now defunct Laboratory for Computer Graphics and Spatial Analysis (LCGSA) is widely recognized as the research/development environment from which the now commercialized technology of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) emerged in the late 1960s and 1970s. More recent research initiatives include the Design Robotics Group, a unit that investigates new material systems and fabrication technologies in the context of architectural design and construction.
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