Article: Leslie Shepherd named Chief Architect of the GSA.

Jay W. Schneider

The announcement on November 22 that Leslie Shepherd, AIA, acting chief architect for the U.S. General Services Administration, would officially be the agency's new chief architect brought an end to a lengthy selection process that, at times, bordered on the controversial. Speculation this fall that classicist Thomas Gordon Smith, a professor of architecture at Notre Dame who is also in private practice in Indiana, would be appointed to the position caused modernists to sweat and traditionalists to rejoice.

Shepherd, whose GSA career spans 18 years beginning in the agency's San Francisco regional office, downplays the controversy, ...

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