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New at the Israel restaurant). Two paths—one above grade, Museum: The main entrance (left), flanked the other directly beneath it—then lead by ticket and retail visitors up the hill to the newly commis pavilions; the main sioned works by Eliasson and Kapoor and stairway (below) the main exhibition spaces. A new, par shows Anish Kapoor’s Turning the World tially submerged, three-story structure Upside Down, acts as a hub for the Mansfeld galleries m the israel m useu , jerusale y of Jerusalem, installed at and provides an inherent organization the top of the stairs; previously lacking. a view of the main gallery entrance The summer’s reopening drew more from the north (below than 1,000 people, including the prime left), dominated minister and president of Israel. Archi by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van tecture and cultural critics have praised Bruggen’s Apple Core the renovation and attendance is up: half (1992) y /courtes g raphs © T i m H ursle P hoto a million people typically visit the muse um annually, but more than 140,000 have toured the renewed campus since July. Snyder demurs when asked about his future plans. “I came committed to seven years, thinking it would take two years to figure out where anything was and five years to get anything done,” he says. Though he has picked up enough Hebrew to conduct basic conversations, he and the staff speak English at the museum. And new 7 World Trade Center). “We needed though he is religious, he has never been architecture that would resonate with inclined to become a permanent resident; what is already here,” Snyder explains. his move to Jerusalem was clearly for Poussin’s Destruction and Sack of the Temple of “Jamie works with architects to design se work. “Most people come to make ali Jerusalem, Rembrandt’s St. Peter in Prison, and quence and entry. That’s exactly what we yah—they become Israeli,” he says. “I’m the Arturo Schwarz Collection of Dada needed.” American. I wear ties. We are most defi and Surrealist Art. The renovation project eventually en nitely still an anomaly.” vjohn gendall Yet over the years, improvised addi tailed a 100,000-square-foot expansion tions to the museum structures had com and reengineering of existing space to John Gendall, M.D.S. ’06, an independent architec promised Mansfeld’s original concept of a help visitors circulate better through the ture critic based in New York, contributes to Me series of concrete modules, clad in Jerusa exhibits. Carpenter moved the main en tropolis, Architect, and Architectural Re lem stone, that appear on the hillscape the trance from the center of the campus to cord, and is an author of The Phaidon World way a Mediterranean village might have the periphery, marking it with new pa Atlas of 21st Century Architecture. He grown up organically—as a series of low- vilions (for ticketing, and a gift shop and teaches at Parsons and Pratt. lying pavilions. The complex was a disori enting labyrinth of independent galleries commonly described as “many museums HAA Award Winners tee of the Harvard Club of Dallas, which under one roof,” Snyder says, a series of interviews more than 450 applicants an “disconnected juxtapositions.” The Harvard Alumni association nually. A past president of both that club Instead of razing Mansfeld’s work or (HAA) Awards were established in 1990 and the local Harvard Business School following the trend that has defined mu to recognize outstanding service to the Club, Flores is a former HBS faculty mem seum architecture for the last 15 years— University through alumni activities. This ber who has served on the HBS Executive commissioning a flamboyant, iconic year’s awards ceremony took place on Oc Council and on his twentieth reunion’s structure such as Frank Gehry’s Guggen tober 14, during the HAA gift-steering committee. He has also been heim, in Bilbao—Snyder took a more nu board of directors’ fall a member of the HAA’s nominating com anced, yet ultimately striking, approach. meeting. Six alumni were mittee and served as regional director for He hired the New York City firm James honored. Texas from 2006 to 2009. Carpenter Design Associates Inc., which Ignacio “Nash” D. See-Yan Lin, M.P.A. ’70, Ph.D. ’77, of has mainly consulted to other architects Flores III, M.B.A. ’67, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, was HAA re in creating entrances and new circulation of Dallas, has served for gional director for Asia for 12 years and patterns for existing designs (notably the more than 25 years as co- Ignacio was instrumental in strengthening the entry pavilion for Manhattan’s Time War chair of the schools and “Nash” network of clubs there. He is the found ner Center and the curtain wall for the scholarships commit D. Flores ing deputy president of the Association
74 November - December 2010 www.alumni.harvard.edu of Harvard University In addition, Lukaszewicz served as HAA participation records in every year but one Alumni Clubs of Asia regional director for Canada from 1989 to for the past 13 years. A former member of (AHUACA), where he or 1992 and mentors executive members of the HBS Alumni Association board of direc ganized several important Ottawa’s Harvard University Club. tors, Sacks is also a member of the Harvard conferences. In 2002, he Regina T. Montoya, J.D. ’79, of Dal Club of New York City and the HBS Club of became president of the las, has served the HAA Greater New York. Harvard Club of Malaysia, See-Yan Lin in multiple roles: as vice Nancy-Beth Sheerr ’71, of Gladwyne, where he had been depu president (1995-1998), as Pennsylvania, was a principal architect of ty president since 1983. Lin has also been an elected director (1988- the Harvard-Radcliffe merger and the cre a leader within the Harvard Graduate 1991), and as a member of ation of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced School Alumni Council, serving as chair the nominating commit Study. She chaired the Radcliffe College from 2002 to 2005, and was a member tee (1991-1994). She has Board of Trustees from 1990 to 1999 and of the visiting committee for East Asian also been active in the Regina T. has been a member of the Dean’s Advisory studies from 2003 to 2006. Harvard Law School As Montoya Board for the institute since 1999. A current Barbara J. Lukaszewicz, M.P.A. ’78, of sociation as a member of member of the HAA awards committee, Ottawa, has dedicated countless hours its visiting committee, reunion gift com she was an HAA regional director for the to the Harvard Club of Ottawa since be mittee, and Committee of Five. Greater Delaware Valley from 2006 to 2010, coming a member in 1978. She has served Sanford J. Sacks, M.B.A. ’66, of Scars an HAA-appointed director for Radcliffe as president and treasurer, and worked dale, New York, is a past co-chair of the from 1972 to 1974, a member of the HAA on the local schools and scholarships HAA’s University-wide alumni outreach schools and scholarships committee, and committee. She spear committee and was an former chair of the HAA’s headed a strategic plan HAA appointed director recent graduates commit to redesign club events for the Business School tee. Sheerr is past president to better meet the intel (HBS) from 2006 to 2009. and current board member lectual and cultural needs Acclaimed as a “star volun of the Harvard-Radcliffe of alumni, as well as their teer” at HBS, he has served Club of Philadelphia, an busy schedules, and in one multiple terms as chair of active class reunion com year, membership soared Barbara J. reunion and annual giving Sanford J. mittee member, and past Nancy-Beth from 50 to 125 members. Lukaszewicz for his class and set new Sacks class president. Sheerr
new cheers to motivate the Dunster House boats, helped design the team’s website, and has never missed a practice. Aloian Award Winners Schell, of Troy, Michigan, is co-chair of the House committee, where he manages a $25,000 budget and works with administra- Each May, the HAA selects two rising seniors to receive the tors and fellow students to address University-wide issues and David and Mimi Aloian Memorial Scholarships. The criteria re- plan campus events. He also devotes significant time to Habitat quire recipients to have shown solid leadership in contribut- for Humanity and piloted the organization’s first two-week-long ing to the quality of life in the Houses, traits embodied by the international home-building project, which took place during Aloians, who served as masters of Quincy House from 1981 to last year’s January intersession. Schell is the program coordi- 1986. David Aloian ’49 was also executive director of the HAA. nator for the Mission Hill After School Program (MHASP) and Michael Baskin ’11, of Dunster House, and Ryan Schell encourages other undergraduates to participate. Last year, to ’11, of Pforzheimer House, were honored at the fall dinner of the delight of everyone in the House, he brought some MHASP the HAA’s board of directors in October. children to Pforzheimer House for a sleepover. Baskin, of Boston, is known as “Eco-Mike.” As Dunster’s Michael Baskin (below) and Ryan Schell Sustainability Representative, he inspired fellow House members to a record 91 percent participation rate in Har- vard’s Sustainability Pledge that has yet to be broken; as social chair of the Dunster House committee, he planned evwents that were both fun and sustainable. As a First Year Outdoor Program trip leader and leader trainer, he helped plan and lead week-long wilderness orientation trips that promote the development of social support and self-aware- ness. Additionally, he co-facilitates discussion groups as part of the Freshman Dean’s Office’s ‘Reflecting on Life’ program.
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