Josep lluis sert biography template

  • Name, Josep Lluís Sert i López.
  • José Luis Sert was a Spanish-born American architect noted for his work in city planning and urban development.
  • Josep Lluís Sert () was one of the most influential Spanish architects and urban planners of the 20th century.

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    the writings of Josep Lluís Sert

    The Writings of Josep Lluís Sert, edited by Eric Mumford. New Haven: Yale University Press; Cambridge, MA: Harvard Graduate School of Design, pages.

    JOSEP LLUÍS SERT belongs to a middle generation of modern architects whose reputations have not fared all that well over the past half century. Groomed by such early-twentieth-century giants as Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius, and the Swiss historian Sigfried Giedion and straddling the historical divide of World War II, Sert and his peers tend to be pegged as epigones, their expansion and revision of modernist ideology overshadowed by a far more polemical cohort of architects that emerged in the s. Yet this bias fails to do justice to an especially thoughtful protagonist like Sert. As Eric Mumford argues in his introduction to this judiciously selected and edited volume of Sert’s writings—produced between and and mostly unpublished until now—the Spanish-born archi

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    Short of stature but tall in reach, José Luis Sert was great in Spain and even greater in the United States. But in the past three decades his reputation has suffered an unmerited erosion in both his native and adopted countries. In the militant seventies, Sert had the heroic stature of captain of the republican rationalist avant-garde, having built the mythical Spanish pavilion in Paris. In the revisionist eighties, he was the one Mediterranean architect who had moderated the radical excesses of modernity through a renewed attention to climate and landscape. And in the skeptical nineties, he was mainly seen as a prominent participant in the collective adventure of the CIAM, from its functionalist beginnings to its humanist and anthropological finale. This shift from bellicose feats to cosmopolitan conversations has dimmed the flame of his figure, blurring the essential coherence of a career that faithfully reproduces the course of architecture in the four central decades of the 2

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    JOSEP LLUIS SERT

    Father of Urban Design

    Kunal Rakshit*

    “I’ve always been interested in architecture as an extension, not only of technical problems, but also of human problems. That aspect interests me very much: how that represents a way of life and a vital gesture. I am probably more interested in a less abstract expression of architecture than some of my colleagues.” --Josep Lluis Sert

    BIOGRAPHY:

    Born in Barcelona, Josep Lluis Sert 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 That same year he moved to Paris, in response to an invitation from Le Corbusier to work for him (without payment). Returning to Barcelona in , he continued his practice there until During the s, he co-founded the group GATCPAC (Grup d'Artistes i Tècnics Catalans per al Progrés de l'Arquitectura Contemporània, i.e. Group of Catala

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