Gund Hall is the home of the Harvard Graduate School of Design at 48 Quincy Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Harvard commissioned the Australian-born architect John Andrews, a graduate of the school, in 1967. Construction began in November 1969, and the school moved in during the fall of 1972. It is named for the benefactor George Gund II.
The main west facade rises five stories. Behind it sits a glass-roofed studio block of four terraced studio levels called trays, linked by open stairways. A 125-foot (38-meter) clear-span steel-truss system roofs the trays. The structure is exposed reinforced concrete and extensive glass, and a tall concrete colonnade carries a deep entrance overhang.
The New York Times critic Ada Louise Huxtable called it "a very powerful building" in 1972. A renovation finished in summer 2024 added high-efficiency glazing and shading to the studio trays, along with updated lighting and wider exits.
This building has no Wikipedia article. Facts come from Harvard Graduate School of Design: History of Gund Hall.
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