b. 1922
Graham Gund is an architect, art patron and philanthropist whose career spans almost a half century. He began his career at The Architects Collaborative, working for Walter Gropius in the heady days of the 1960s when Boston was being reimagined as a nexus for modernist architecture. He founded the firm that bears his name in 1971. Like many architects of the era, he began experimenting with new visual expressions while undertaking important historic preservation work, including saving from destruction Charles Bulfinch's 1814 Middlesex County Courthouse in East Cambridge, which now serves as his firm's architecture studio.
Today GUND Partnership is a nationally recognized design firm specializing in higher education and independent school projects with a particular focus on the arts and libraries. The firm has won more than 130 awards for design excellence, including two Harleston Parker Medals, the highest award conferred by the Boston Society of Architects. GUND has designed and completed more than 60 buildings on college campuses and more than 45 buildings on Independent School campuses.
Gund is active in Boston's cultural arts and architecture communities. He is a trustee of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Institute of Contemporary Art. On a national level, he is a member of both the National Committee on Design and the distinguished College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects and serves as a trustee of the National Building Museum, as well as the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
Gund studied at Kenyon College. He pursued postgraduate study at the Rhode Island School of Design and received a Master of Architecture and a Master of Architecture in Urban Design from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. In addition, he holds six honorary degrees.
Today GUND Partnership is a nationally recognized design firm specializing in higher education and independent school projects with a particular focus on the arts and libraries. The firm has won more than 130 awards for design excellence, including two Harleston Parker Medals, the highest award conferred by the Boston Society of Architects. GUND has designed and completed more than 60 buildings on college campuses and more than 45 buildings on Independent School campuses.
Gund is active in Boston's cultural arts and architecture communities. He is a trustee of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Institute of Contemporary Art. On a national level, he is a member of both the National Committee on Design and the distinguished College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects and serves as a trustee of the National Building Museum, as well as the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
Gund studied at Kenyon College. He pursued postgraduate study at the Rhode Island School of Design and received a Master of Architecture and a Master of Architecture in Urban Design from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. In addition, he holds six honorary degrees.
