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Up for sale "Spanish Architect" Josep Lluís Sert Hand Signed 3.5X5.5 Card. 

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Josep

Lluís Sert i ʎuˈis ˈsɛɾt]; 1

July 1902 – 15 March 1983) was a Spanish architect and city planner. Born in Barcelona, Catalonia, 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 1929. That same year Sert moved 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 the 1930s, Sert co-founded the group GATCPAC (Grup d'Artistes i

Tècnics Catalans per al Progrés de l'Arquitectura Contemporània, i.e. Group

of Catalan Artists and Technicians for the Progress of Contemporary

Architecture), which later became, with the addition of the western and north

groups, the GATEPAC (Grupo de Artistas y Técnicos Españoles para el

Progreso de l'Arquitectura Contemporánea), which was in turn the Spanish branch

of the Congrès

International d'Architecture Moderne (CIAM). Sometime

later, Sert became President of CIAM (1947–56). He created several outstanding

pieces of modern architecture during this period, such as the week-end house

in El Garraf, Catalonia, Spain (1935), the Central Dispensary

of Barcelona (1935) and the Master Plan for the City of Barcelona (1933–35).

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. For the artistic content of the

building, Sert called on his Spanish artist friends Picasso, Miró, and Calder; Picasso's contribution was Guernica and became the

focal attraction of Sert's design. 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, Sert initiated the world's first

degree program in urban design; 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 Fundació Miró (museum) in Barcelona (1975) and quite a few buildings for Harvard University,

including Holyoke Center (1958–65), the Harvard Science Center (1969–72), Peabody Terrace (apartments, 1962–64), and the Center for the Study of World Religions at the Harvard Divinity School.

Among other notable buildings in the vicinity are a complex at Boston

University including its law school, student union, and main library (1960–65),

Sert's home in Cambridge, as well as the Martin Luther King elementary school

(1968–71), located across from Peabody Terrace. In New York, he completed the

Eastwood and Westview apartments on Roosevelt Island, NYC (1976). In 1961, Sert brought Le Corbusier to the United States to design the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard, and a gallery in the Carpenter Center is now named in

Sert's honor. In 1981, he received the AIA Gold Medal. Josep Lluis Sert counted amongst his close

friends the likes of Alexander Calder, Joan Miró, Georges Braque, and Marc Chagall, for whom he designed studios and homes.He brought art into the Harvard curriculum

through his commissioning of the Carpenter Center and his subsequent avid support for it.

His design for the Fondation the Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona and the Museum School were more than an

architect-client relationship, they were partnerships in the discovery of

modern art. Among Sert's students and colleagues in his studio were leading and

past master architects from the United as well Maki of Japan, Christopher Charles

Benninger of India; and many more. 

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