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Week of 29 October 1999 Vol. III, No. 12 BU Yesterday José Luis Sert, dean of Harvard's Graduate School of Design, was the lead architect of the three buildings that marked BU's move to architectural modernity in the early 1960s -- the George Sherman Union, Mugar Memorial Library, and the School of Law. The three related structures also shifted the center of the Charles River Campus slightly to the west. In this circa 1962 photo, we're looking east from one of the outdoor patios on the river side of the GSU. The work in progress in the background is the LAW tower, which the School of Education shared until its 1980 move into the old Lahey Clinic building. The apartment block between the tower and the GSU would soon be replaced by the new library. Boston University Photo Services