Josep Lluís Sert / [editor Sofia Cheviakoff ; texts Sofia Cheviakoff, Alberto Duarte].

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Material type: Text

TextSeries: American architectsPublication details: Gloucester, Mass. ; [Great Britain] : Rockport, 2003.Description: 79 pages : color illustrations, maps ; 27 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

1564969851
9781564969859

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Additional physical formats: Online version:: Josep Lluís Sert.DDC classification:

720.92 21

LOC classification:

NA737.S4 J67 2003

Other classification:

TU-867.12

Available additional physical forms:

Also issued online.

Contents:

Holyoke Center -- Maeght Foundation -- Apartments for married students -- Central Campus. Boston University -- Houses in Punta Martinet -- Science Center. Harvard University -- Joan Miro Foundation Center of Studies in Contemporary Art -- Joan Miro's Studio.

Subject: This book presents 10 works by this great architect and city planner, considered along with Kahn, Niemeyer, Tange and others as a key figure in the second generation of the Modernist movement. Originally from Barcelona, Sert immigrated to the United States 10 years after graduating as an architect from the Higher Technical School of Architecture of Barcelona. Sert was the dean of the Faculty of the Graduate School of Design and Professor of Architecture at Harvard University. He carried out numerous works of architecture, urban planning, and urban design in addition to his teaching work. He was president of the CIAM from 1947 to 1956. One of his major contributions to modern architecture was the introduction of the ideas and techniques used in regional and traditional construction. The book presents, among others, Sert's Maeght Foundation, Holyoke Center, and his residences in Cambridge and upstate New York.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Stickley Museum Library (Non-Circulating) Off-Site Storage (request in advance)	NA737.S4 J67 2003 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		SMCF23080622

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This book presents 10 works by this great architect and city planner, considered along with Kahn, Niemeyer, Tange and others as a key figure in the second generation of the Modernist movement. Originally from Barcelona, Sert immigrated to the United States 10 years after graduating as an architect from the Higher Technical School of Architecture of Barcelona. Sert was the dean of the Faculty of the Graduate School of Design and Professor of Architecture at Harvard University. He carried out numerous works of architecture, urban planning, and urban design in addition to his teaching work. He was president of the CIAM from 1947 to 1956. One of his major contributions to modern architecture was the introduction of the ideas and techniques used in regional and traditional construction. The book presents, among others, Sert's Maeght Foundation, Holyoke Center, and his residences in Cambridge and upstate New York.

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