JOSEP LLUíS SERT

'Josep Lluís Sert i López' (1902—1983) was a Spanish architect from Catalonia.
Born in Barcelona, he showed keen interest in the works of his uncle, the painter Josep Maria Sert and of Gaudí. He studied architecture at the Escuela Superior de Arquitectura in Barcelona and set up his own studio in 1929. That same year he sifted to Paris where he worked with Le Corbusier, returning to Barcelona in 1930, continuing his practice until 1937. During this period he founded the Spanish group of the Congress for Modern Architecture (CIAM). Much later he became the President of CIAM (1947-56). He created several outstanding pieces of modern architecture during this period, such as the week-end house at Garraf, Spain (1935), the Central Dispensary Barcelona (1935) and the Master Plan for the City of Barcelona (1933-35). From 1937 through 1939 he lived in Paris, where he designed the Spanish Republic's Pavillion at the World's Fair. In this work he collorabted with Catelonian artists Picasso, Miro, and Calder. Picasso's Guernica was 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 Design1953-69. He initiated the world's first course in urban design there, integrated the programmes of architecture, planning, landscape and urban design, teaching many of today's leading architects. During this period he served on the Advisory Board of the newly created Graham Foundation in Chicago, IL.
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 Foundation Maeght (1959-64) in Southern France, the Miro Studio (1975), the Holyoke Centre in Cambridge, Massachusetts(1958-65), the Harvard Science Center (1969-72), the Peabody Terrace Apartments (1962-64) and the Boston University (1960-65). In 1961 Sert brought Le Corbusier to America to design his first building there, the Carpenter Center for Visual Arts at Harvard.
Amongst Sert's students and colleagues in his studio are the leading architects of America, Switzerland, Japan, India, Bolivia, Spain, France and Brazil.
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★ Barcelona Architecture Chronology of Catalan architecture and biographies of Catalan architects, from the gothic master builders to contemporary architecture, including Josep Lluís Sert