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1870-1926

Guy Lowell, born in Boston in 1870, graduated from Harvard College in 1892, from MIT's Department of Architecture in 1894, and received the Diplome of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in 1899. Lowell collaborated with his design instructor at MIT, Desire Despradelle, on several major projects, including the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and plans for Harvard's [unbuilt] Widener Library, presaged in his student thesis drawing. They taught together at MIT from 1900, when Lowell was appointed instructor of landscape architecture, until Despradelle's death in 1912. Lowell directed MIT's short-lived program in landscape architecture, initiated in 1900 and disbanded in 1909.