Architectural Project: Harvard Faculty Club

This is an illustrative page to my Curriculum Vitae on Google Maps. You can enlarge the images.

I was the Project Manager for the addition and renovation of the historic club while at Burt Hill.The most interesting part of this unique project was the design of the Conservatory, built by the artisans in Ireland, then shipped and assembled in Cambridge. My name is still on the wall there.

By the way the interior designer bought that “lamp” in a flea market somewhere in Paris. Then the contractors tortured her to make sure it was “UL rated”.

The club is adjacent to the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, designed in the early 60s by Le Corbusier (in the background). The modernist purists, the professors in the Carpenter Center, hate the neo-georgian neighbor rather thoroughly. I have to say that feeling is mutual there. Part of the project was making sure we don’t visually step on the Corbu landmark.

Memorable and colorful personalities representing the “client”, actually different interests within the school. It was a superb, “educational” experience.

I designed that iron rail, it’s nicely proportioned and snakes naturally along the precast curve.