After Almost a Year of Controversy, Harvard Chooses New Dean For its Graduate School of Design

The Architect’s Newspaper has some interesting commentary on the appointment of Mohsen Mostafavi as dean of Harvard’s Graduate School of Design program. Mostafavi, who taught at Harvard in the 90’s and also taught at London’s Architectural Association School of Architecture (AA) and Cornell, succeeds Alan Altshuler after a long struggle to find a replacement. Many at the school believe Altshuler left because he supported former president Larry Summers, the guy who said that “issues of intrinsic aptitude” might

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