Josep Lluis Sert
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| Josep Lluis Sert | |
| Born | 1902; Barcelona, Spain |
| Died | 1983; Barcelona, Spain |
| Education | Escuela Tecnica Superior de Arquitectura |
| Firms | Sert Jackson Gourley |
| Notes | |
| At Great Buildings | http://www.GreatBuildings.com/architects/Joesph_Lluis_Sert.html |
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[edit] Works
- <a href="http://www.architectureweek.com/2005/1214/culture_1-1.html">Sert House</a>, at Punta Martinet, Ibiza, Spain, 1968 to 1971. Archiplanet page
- <a target="_top" href="http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/">at ArchitectureWeek</a> Archiplanet page
- <a href="http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2002/0220/news_3-1.html">Miro Foundation</a>, at Barcelona, Spain, completed 1974. Archiplanet page
- <a target="_top" href="http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/">at ArchitectureWeek</a> Archiplanet page
[edit] Discussion
(b. Barcelona, Spain 1902; d. Barcelona, Spain 1983)
Joseph Lluis Sert was born in Barcelona in 1902. He graduated from the Escuela Tecnica Superior de Arquitectura in 1929. Sert worked with Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret in Paris before he established his own practice in Barcelona. Sert returned to Paris in 1937 to design the Spanish Pavilion for the World's Fair. Two years later he moved to the U. S. where he worked with the town planning firm of Pal Lest Weiner.
Sert helped organize the first group of architects in Barcelona affiliated with CIAM. In 1942 he edited Can Our Cities Survive? for CIAM and from 1947 to 1956 he acted as President. Through his involvement, he advanced the planning theories of the Modern Movement. Sert was also a member of GATEPAC, a group concerned with the role of architects in city planning.
In 1953 Sert became Dean of the Faculty of the Graduate School of Design and Professor of Architecture at Harvard University. During his tenure he established the Urban Design Program, the first formal urban planning course in the United States. In 1955 he established an office in Cambridge, Massachusetts which eventually transformed into the partnership of Sert, Jackson & Associates. The firm designed several houses, offices and university buildings during the 1960s and 1970s.
Through his architecture Sert hoped to achieve a balance of contrasting elements. He worked to effectively and successfully combine people with machines, urban density with support services, and community spaces with private spaces.
In 1981 Sert was awarded the AIA Gold Medal. He died in Barcelona, Spain in 1983.
References
Dennis Sharp. The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Architects and Architecture. New York: Quatro Publishing, 1991. ISBN 0-8230-2539-X. NA40.I45. p140-41.
Details
- Recipient of the American Institute of Architects Gold Medal, 1981.
- Recipient, AIA Architecture Firm Award, 1977. (as Sert Jackson and Associates)
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Josep Lluís Sert
Josep Lluís Sert i López (1902—1983) was a Spanish architect from Catalonia.
Born in Barcelona, he showed keen interest in the works of his uncle, the painter Josep Maria Sert and of Gaudí. He studied architecture at the Escola Superior d'Arquitectura in Barcelona and set up his own studio in 1929. That same year he shifted to Paris, in response to an invitation from Le Corbusier to work for him (without payment). Returning to Barcelona in 1930, he continued his practice there until 1937. During this period he founded the group GATCPAC, it later become with the addition of the western and north groups the GATEPAC, which was in turn the Spanish branch of the Congrès International d'Architecture Moderne (CIAM). Much later he became President of CIAM (1947-56). He created several outstanding pieces of modern architecture during this period, such as the week-end house at Garraf, Spain (1935), the Central Dispensary Barcelona (1935) and the Master Plan for the City of Barcelona (1933-35). From 1937 through 1939 he lived in Paris, where he designed the Spanish Republic's pavilion at the World's Fair, the Paris Exposition of 1937. The Spanish Pavilion was built right beside the Nazi Germany Pavilion, while in Spain the Civil War was going on and the Nazis had just bombed the town of Guernica. For the artistic content of the building Sert brought in his Spanish artist friends Picasso, Miro, and Calder; Picasso's contribution was Guernica and became the focal attraction of Sert's design.Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). Guernica...the Spanish Pavilion. Treasures of the World. Accessed 22 December 2007.
In 1939 Sert went into exile in New York City where he worked with the Town Planning Associates, carrying out numerous urban plans for cities in South America.
In 1952, Sert held a one-year Visiting Professorship at Yale University. The following year he became Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design (1953-1969). There, he initiated the world's first degree program in urban design;Josep Lluis Sert: The Architect of Urban Design. Exhibition and symposium announcement. 2003. Accessed 22 December 2007. integrated the programs of architecture, planning, landscape and urban design, and taught many of today's leading architects. During this period he served on the Advisory Board of the newly created Graham Foundation in Chicago, Illinois.
In 1955 Sert founded a studio in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which in 1958 became a partnership with Huson Jackson and Ronald Gourley. Joseph Zalewski was the Associate and continued to be in the firm Sert, Jackson and Associate founded in 1963. The studio designed many well known projects including the Maeght Foundation (1959-64) in Southern France, the Miro Studio (1975), the Holyoke Centre in Cambridge, Massachusetts (1958-65), the Harvard Science Center (1969-72), the Peabody Terrace Apartments (1962-64), the Eastwood and Westview apartments on Roosevelt Island (1976), and a complex at Boston University that includes its law school, student union, and main library (1960-65). In 1961 Sert brought Le Corbusier to the United States to design his first (and only) building there, the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard, and a gallery in the Carpenter Center is now named in Sert's honor.
Amongst Sert's students and colleagues in his studio are the leading architects of America, Switzerland, Japan, India, Bolivia, Spain, France and Brazil.
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Bibliography
- VV.AA., "4 Centenarios: Luis Barragán, Marcel Breuer, Ärne Jacobsen, José Luis Sert", (4 volúmenes), Valladolid, Spain, ISBN 84-8448-199-9, 2002, Universidad de Valladolid, Página Web
References
External links
- Josep Lluís Sert Compilation of articles about Sert and video
- Harvard To Celebrate Legacy of Architect, Urban Planner, and Educator Josep Lluís Sert Harvard University Art Museums Press Releases. 2003.
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[edit] References
"House of Sert", by Jaume Freixa, ArchitectureWeek No. 268, 2005.1214. pC1.1.
"Sert's Miro Foundation", by ArchitectureWeek, ArchitectureWeek No. 87, 2002.0220. pN3.1.
