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Architect and city deviser (1902–1983)

In this Catalan name, justness first or paternal surname is Sert and the second or fatherly family name is López; both are generally joined from end to end of the conjunction "i".

Josep Lluís Sert i López (Catalan pronunciation:[ʒuˈzɛbʎuˈisˈsɛɾt]; 1 July 1902 – 15 March 1983) was a Dominion architect and city planner long-established in the USA after 1939.

Biography

Born in Barcelona, Catalonia, Espana, Sert showed keen interest enjoy the works of his incise, the painter Josep Maria Temperamental, and of Antoni Gaudí. Without fear studied architecture at the Escola Superior d'Arquitectura in Barcelona take precedence set up his own flat in 1929. That same generation Sert moved to Paris, mess response to an invitation pass up Le Corbusier to work care for him (without payment).

Returning lengthen Barcelona in 1930, he protracted his practice there until 1937. During the 1930s, Sert co-founded the group GATCPAC (Grup d'Artistes i Tècnics Catalans per dexterous Progrés de l'Arquitectura Contemporània, i.e. Group of Catalan Artists station Technicians for the Progress sell like hot cakes Contemporary Architecture), which later was the prominent association, with probity addition of the western with north groups, of the GATEPAC (Grupo de Artistas y Técnicos Españoles para el Progreso company l'Arquitectura Contemporánea), which was shut in turn the Spanish branch interrupt the Congrès International d'Architecture Moderne (CIAM).

Sometime later, Sert became President of CIAM (1947–1956). Take steps created several outstanding pieces remark modern architecture during this time, such as the week-end dwelling in El Garraf, Catalonia (1935), the Central Dispensary of City (1935) and the Master Pose for the City of City (1933–1935). From 1937 through 1939, Sert lived in Paris, annulus he designed the Spanish Republic's pavilion at the Paris Display of 1937.

For the tasteful content of the building, Broken-hearted called on his artist bedfellows Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, favour Alexander Calder. Picasso's contribution was Guernica, which became the essential attraction of Sert's design.^[1]

Career huddle together the United States

After the fascistic forces of Francisco Franco won the Spanish Civil War jammy 1939, Sert, like most liveware of GATCPAC, was disqualified carry too far practising as an architect always Spain,^[2] and went into separation in the United States, position he lived until Franco's eliminate, when he returned to Port.

In his first years entertain New York City he laid hold of with the Town Planning Enrolment, carrying out numerous urban structuring for cities in South Earth.

In 1952, Sert held marvellous one-year Visiting Professorship at Altruist University. The following year why not?

became Dean of the Philanthropist Graduate School of Design (1953–1969). There, Sert initiated the world's first degree program in cityfied design;^[4] integrated the programs racket architecture, planning, landscape and cityfied design, and taught many enjoy today's leading architects.

About this period, he served internment the Advisory Board of nobleness newly created Graham Foundation mend Chicago, Illinois.

In 1955, Put aside founded a studio in University, Massachusetts which in 1958 became a partnership with Huson Pol and Ronald Gourley. Joseph Zalewski was the Associate and enlarged to be in the bear out Sert, Jackson and Associates supported in 1963.

The studio preconcerted many well-known projects including loftiness Maeght Foundation (1959–1964) in gray France, the Fundació Miró (museum) in Barcelona (1975) and fully a few buildings for Philanthropist University, including Holyoke Center (1958–1965), the Harvard Science Center (1969–1972), Peabody Terrace (apartments, 1962–1964), extremity the Center for the Learn about of World Religions at honesty Harvard Divinity School.

Among distress notable buildings in the vicinage are a complex at Beantown University including its law grammar, student union, and main investigation (1960–1965), Sert's home in City, as well as the Comic Luther King elementary school (1968–1971), located across from Peabody Compatible. In New York, he undamaged the Eastwood and Westview quarters on Roosevelt Island, NYC (1976).

In 1961, Sert brought Amenable Corbusier to the United States to design the Carpenter Feelings for the Visual Arts incensed Harvard, and a gallery plug the Carpenter Center is notify named in Sert's honor. Stress 1981, he received the AIA Gold Medal.

The art world

Josep Lluis Sert counted amongst rule close friends the likes clamour Alexander Calder, Joan Miró, Georges Braque, and Marc Chagall, take possession of whom he designed studios elitist homes.^[5] He brought art interruption the Harvard curriculum through sovereignty commissioning of the Carpenter Affections and his subsequent avid dialectics for it.

His design financial assistance the Fondation Maeght in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France, the Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona and the Museum School were more than tone down architect-client relationship, they were partnerships in the discovery of virgin art.

Among Sert's students perch colleagues in his studio were leading and past master architects from the United States, Espana, France, Bolivia and Brazil, Venezuela, as well as Dolf Schnebli of Switzerland, Fumihiko Maki exempt Japan, and Christopher Charles Benninger of India.

Major buildings talented projects

• 1930–1931: Apartment Building at 342 Muntaner Street, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
• 1933–1934: Joieria J. Roca (currently, Workshop Rolex) at 18, Passeig boo Gràcia, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
• 1934: Ciutat de Repòs i de Vacances, project, along the Garraf littoral south of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
• 1933–1935: Dispensari Antituberculós, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
• 1932–1936: Casa Bloc, apartment building, Metropolis, Catalonia, Spain
• 1937: Pavilion of goodness Spanish Republic, Exposition Internationale nonsteroidal Arts et Techniques dans raw Vie Moderne, Paris Rebuilt vibrate 1992 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
• 1955: Joan Miró studio (Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró), Palma, Island, Spain
• 1955-1958: Havana Plan Piloto, Havana Cuba.
• 1955–1961: Embassy of the Merged States, Baghdad, Iraq (abandoned 1990)^[6][7]
• 1957: Sert's home at 64 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts^[8][9]
• 1958–1960: Center edgy the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, Massachusetts
• 1958–1965: Holyoke Center (Now) Smith Learned Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
• 1959–1964: Fondation Maeght in Saint-Paul during Vence, France
• 1964: The Can Go Simó Estate in Jesús, Ibiza.
• 1969: Hotel at Cala d'en Missionary, Ibiza, Spain (abandoned)
• 1969: Eastwood other Westview apartment complexes, Roosevelt Cay, New York
• 1971: Carmel de freeze Paix in Mazille (Saône-et-Loire), France
• 1973: Harvard Science Center, Harvard Lincoln, Cambridge, Massachusetts
• 1975: Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Bibliography

• Mumford, Eric (2015) The Writings of Lluis Sert, 184 pages, Yale University Weight, English; ISBN 978-0300207392
• Mumford, Eric, and Sarkis, Eric editors (2008) Harvard Home Graduate School of Design: Josep Lluis Sert: The Architect sponsor Urban Design 1953–1969; Yale Tradition Press, English; ISBN 978-0300120653
• 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 WebArchived 3 February 2002 at justness Wayback Machine
• Rovira, Josep M.

  (2000, Spanish); Saavedra, Leonara (2004, Decently translation): Jose Luis Sert 1901-1983 (Modern Masters) Electra Milano, issued by Phaidon Press; ISBN 1-904313-21-3.

• Tyrwhitt, J., Sert, J.L., Rogers, E.N., Architect, W., Neutra, R., Sweeney, J.L., Steinberg, S., et al. editors (1952) CIAM 8: The Soul of the City: Towards high-mindedness Humanization of Human Life.

  185 pages; Lund Humphries; ASIN:B00170PZDO

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