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Mohsen Mostafavi, dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD), will step down from the position at the end of the 2018-\u201919 academic year.
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Mohsen Mostafavi, dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design<\/a> (GSD) since January 2008, will step down from the position at the end of the 2018-\u201919 academic year. A dean for more than a decade, Mostafavi has led efforts to strengthen and renew the GSD faculty, to expand and diversify the school\u2019s degree programs and its student body, and to extend its scholarly impact both nationally and internationally. As the Alexander and Victoria Wiley Professor of Design, he plans to return to active service on the GSD faculty after a sabbatical year.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt has been a great honor and a privilege to be part of the GSD community as dean,\u201d said Mostafavi. \u201cThe incredible diversity, talent, and passion of our students, faculty, and staff both inspire and affirm the school\u2019s commitment to educating leaders in design, research, and scholarship to create a resilient, just, and beautiful world.\u201d<\/p>\n

A leading scholar of architecture and urbanism, Mostafavi guided GSD through a period of growth, innovation, and change. His deanship brought about the strategic expansion of several degree programs, along with an increase in GSD\u2019s student body.<\/p>\n

Under Mostafavi\u2019s leadership, the GSD faculty has grown from 62 to approximately 90, and new faculty have been recruited to chair the school\u2019s three principal academic departments: architecture, landscape architecture, and urban planning and design. The school has also pursued appointments intended to add strength in urbanism, sustainability, technology, and social equity.<\/p>\n

\u201cMostafavi has led with imagination, energy, and dedication. Those qualities have strengthened GSD\u2019s position as a worldwide leader in design education and research and as a critical bridge between design theory and practice,\u201d said Larry Bacow, the university\u2019s president.<\/p>\n

Mostafavi\u2019s scholarly work focuses on modes and processes of urbanization and on the interface between technology and aesthetics. He is a trustee of Smith College and an honorary trustee of the Norman Foster Foundation. Mostafavi served on the steering committee and the jury of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture and has chaired the jury of the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture \u2013 Mies van der Rohe Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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