But Dowds says it will take more than creative landscaping to solve the DeWolfe space problem. "They are giant cubes that completely fill their sites, with very little space around them," he says.

He says DeWolfe is emblematic of an overall determination by the University to build on every last bit of space.

"Harvard Real Estate has taken over a lot of the design," Dowds says. "The people with the calculators, trying to figure out how much money they can squeeze from the land, have overtaken the architects and the educators."

Lecturer in Architecture Jeremiah Eck blames the problem of preserving enough open space at Harvard on small construction sites and a general lack of room for expansion in the city.

"It would be nice to have more green," he says, "but where are you going to put it?"

Despite the clamors for more green space, some onlookers feel Cambridge already has enough of it.

"There's already a series of large, attractive open spaces around Harvard Square--the river, the Yard, the Common--plus sidewalks and smaller parks," says Jay Wickersham, architecture editor of Art New England.

"There's plenty of open space around," agrees Campbell. "They're turning our cities into suburbs."