and as the setting for commencement ceremonies. The building was designed by architect John Andrews and supervised by structural engineer William LeMessurier both GSD alumni. Frances Loeb Library The Frances Loeb Library, is the main library of the Graduate School of Design. The library has a collection of over 300,000 books and journals. It also has a Materials and Visual Resources Department, and the Special Collections Department, which houses the GSD's rare books and manuscript collection. Fabrication Lab The Fabrication Lab has both traditional tools and state-of-the-art technology available for model making and prototyping to faculty research and student course work. The Fabrication Lab has a full wood shop, metals shop, printing labs, 3D printing, CNC tools, robotic machines, laser cutter machines, etc. Notable alumni and faculty the GSD had over 13,000 alumni in 96 countries. The GSD had 77 faculty members and 129 visiting faculty members. 45% of the faculty members were born outside of the United States. Alumni Alejandro Zaera-Polo Alexandra Lange, critic Andy Fillmore, urban designer and incumbent member of the Canadian parliament for Halifax Anita Berrizbeitia, landscape architect and Chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture, Harvard University GSD Bruno Zevi, architect, critic, and historian John Andrews, designer of the GSD's Gund Hall Charles Jencks, landscape architect and architectural theorist Christopher Alexander, architect, co-author of A Pattern Language Christopher Charles Benninger, architect Lester Collins (landscape architect) Shaun Donovan (born 1966), former US Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and Director of the Office of Management and Budget, running for Mayor of New York City Cornelia Oberlander, landscape architect Dan Kiley, modernist landscape architect Danny Forster, architect and television host David Gee Cheng, engineer and real estate developer, former Indonesian Deputy Minister for City Planning and Construction Edward Durell Stone, Modernist architect Edward Durell Stone Jr., landscape architect, founder of EDSA Edward Larrabee Barnes, prolific Modernist architect Eliot Noyes Elizabeth Whittaker, architect, founder of Merge Architects Farshid Moussavi Frank Gehry, Pritzker Prize Laureate, awarded honorary doctorate, studied urban planning Frida Escobedo, Architect Fumihiko Maki, Pritzker Prize Laureate Garrett Eckbo, modernist landscape architect George Ranalli Grace La, architect Grant Jones, landscape architect Harry Seidler Henry N. Cobb Hideo Sasaki, landscape architect, former department chair, founder of Sasaki Associates and Sasaki Walker Associates Hugh Stubbins, architect Ian McHarg, landscape planner, GIS development IM Pei, Pritzker Prize Laureate Jack Dangermond, landscape architecture, GIS development, co-founder of Environmental Systems Research Institute