Josep Lluís Sert: The Architect of Urban Design, 1953-1969

Eric Mumford [Editor]; Hashim Sarkis [Editor]; Mardges Bacon [Collaborator]; Timothy Hyde [Contributor]; Richard Marshall [Contributor]; Cammie McAtee [Contributor]; Jordana Mendelson [Contributor]; Francesco Passanti [Contributor]; Jill Pearlman [Contributor]; Eduard Sekler [Contributor];

ISBN 10: 0300120656 / ISBN 13: 9780300120653

Published by Yale University Press, 2008

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• Title: Josep Lluís Sert: The Architect of Urban Design, 1953-1969
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300120656
• ISBN 13: 9780300120653
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This book examines the emergence and evolution of the discipline of urban design as articulated through the work of Josep Lluís Sert (19021983), one of its most influential practitioners. Sert came to international attention in the 1930s and 40s as a leading young European architect active in the new discourse of modern architecture. Noted for his city planning and urban development projects in Europe, South America, and the United States, the master plans of his later career were significant for their integration of natural landscape features into the urban building scheme. Sert's academic career included an extraordinarily productive tenure as Dean of Harvard University's Graduate School of Design (19531969), where he founded and directed the Department of Urban Design. With essays by leading scholars and a wide selection of archival materials, illustrations, plans, and maps, this book provides a timely look at the man who advocated the idea of 'urban consciousness' and an architecture that dealt with the total environment, well before these concepts became commonplace.

About the Author

Eric Mumford is associate professor of architecture and art history at Washington University in St. Louis. Hashim Sarkis is Aga Khan Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urbanism in Muslim Societies at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.