$10M gift designed to support GSD’s intellectual reach
The Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) announced Wednesday that John K.F. Irving ’83, M.B.A. ’89, and Anne Irving Oxley have donated $10 million to the School in honor of their father, John E. (Jack) Irving. This leadership gift will kick-start the Graduate School of Design’s campaign efforts with support for Dean Mohsen Mostafavi’s vision for the School by deepening and broadening the faculty’s intellectual reach, lowering the barriers of cost to its students, and responding to an evolving design pedagogy to bolster transdisciplinary scholarship and an ambitious research agenda. The John E. Irving family gift will enhance the School’s leadership position in 21st century design. For the Irvings — longtime champions of the School who endowed a professorship in landscape architecture in 2008 to honor their father — the gift builds on a tradition of giving, reinforcing their commitment to the GSD and honoring the family’s dedication to both the built...