Josep lluis sert biography of donald

Urban Planning

Barcelona, Spain

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(2010). Fitzroy Dearborn., 2005.

1 July 1902 Born in Barcelona, Spain ;

1929 Studied at the Escuela Superior de Arquitectura, Barcelona; master’s degree in architecture ;

1929–31 Assistant to Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret, Paris ;

1930–36 established GATCPAC, a group of architects affiliated with CIAM ;

1931–37 Private practice, Barcelona ;

from 1937–39 Lived in Paris ;

1939 emigrated to the United States ;

1939–57 Founder and partner with Paul Lester Wiener and Paul Schulz, Town Planning Associates, New York ;

1944–45 Professor of city planning, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut ;

1945 Member, board of directors and planning committee, Citizens Housing Council of New York ;

1947–56 president of CIAM ;

1951 naturalized in the United States;

1953–69 professor of architecture and dean of the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts;

1956–69 consultant to the Harvard Planning Office, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts;

from 1957 private practice, Cambridge, Massachusetts ;

1957 chairman, Planning Board of Cambridge, Massachusetts ;

1958–63 partner, with Huson Jackson and Ronald Gourley, Sert, Jackson and Gourley ;

from 1963 partner, Sert, Jackson and Associates ;

1964 chairman, American Institute of Architects Committee on the National Capital ;

from 1969 emeritus professor, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts;

1970–71 Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Professor of Architecture, University of Virginia, Charlottesville ;

1972–74 member, Advisory Council, Princeton University School of Architecture and Urban Planning, New Jersey ;

1975 fellow, American Institute of Architects; member, National Institute of Arts and Letters; member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences; honorary member, Royal Architectural Institute, Canada; honorary member, Royal Society of Arts, London; honorary member, Royal Institute of British Architects; honorary member, Académie Royale, Belgium; honorary member, Akademie der Künste, Berlin; honorary member, Royal Academy of Arts, London; honorary member, Society of Architects, Mexico; honorary member; Institute of Urbanism, Peru; honorary member, Académie d’Architecture, France; honorary member, Sociedad de Arquitectos, Columbia.

In 1981, he received the AIA Gold Medal.

The Art World

Josep Lluis Sert counted amongst his close friends the likes of Alexander Calder, Joan Miro, Georges Braque, and Marc Chagall, for whom he designed studios and homes. His style evolved, retaining its Mediterranean roots for more than six decades: a thoughtful architecture of primary colors against pure white, agglomerative massing of cubic forms, functionally derived flat pattern, and intense interest in space and light.

Associated with liberal causes in Spain, Sert debuted internationally at the Paris World’s Fair of 1937 with his design for the Pavilion for the Spanish Republic, housing Picasso’s Guernica.

Sert understood aesthetic dialectics, moving elegantly from art to architecture, from architecture to nature, and from vernacular materials to the modern machined world, always the modernist émigré drawn back to ancient echoes.

Gold Medal, French Academy of Architecture ;

1981 Gold Medal, American Institute of Architects ;

15 March 1983 Died in Barcelona, Spain. Each art museum is com-posed of a series of masses of cubic forms, like an indigenous hill town, built of positive and negative spaces, in clusters resembling Iberian atrium houses.

Influenced by Le Corbusier, Sert and his colleagues sought to revolutionize Spanish architecture by integrating social ideals with contemporary design.

One of GATCPAC’s key initiatives was the Macià Plan, developed in collaboration with Le Corbusier. Through his buildings, teaching, and advocacy, Sert championed a vision of architecture that was socially progressive, artistically enriched, and deeply humanistic.

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Returning to Barcelona in 1930, he continued his practice there until 1937. Some years later he succeeded Walter Gropius as dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design (1953-1969). Sert’s master plans for cities in Colombia, Peru, and Brazil showcased his commitment to human-centred urbanism, emphasizing pedestrian-friendly environments, civic spaces, and mixed-use developments.

In 1953, Sert was appointed Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD), where he profoundly influenced urban design.

His design for the Fondation Maeght in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France, the Fundacio Joan Miro in Barcelona and the Museum School were more than an architect-client relationship, they were partnerships in the discovery of modern art. From 1937 through 1939, Sert lived in Paris, where he designed the Spanish Republic's pavilion at the World's Fair, the Paris Exposition of 1937.

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