Josep Lluís Sert : the architect of urban design, 1953-1969 / edited by Eric Mumford and Hashim Sarkis ; with Neyran Turan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mumford, Eric Paul, 1958-

Sarkis, Hashim.

Turan, Neyran.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sert, José Luis, 1902-1983--Criticism and interpretation.

Sert, José Luis.

Sert, José Luis, 1902-1983.

City planning--History--20th century.

City planning.

History.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

viii, 247 pages : illustrations (some color), plans (some color) ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press ; Cambridge : Harvard University Graduate School of Design, [2008]

Summary:

This book examines the emergence and evolution of the discipline of urban design as articulated through the work of Josep Lluis Sert (1902-1983), one of its most influential practitioners and theorists. Sert came to international attention in the 1930s and '40s as a leading young European architect active in the new discourse of modern architecture. He was noted for his city planning and urban development projects in Europe, South America, and the United States, and 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 (1953-1969), 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.

Contents:

Introduction / Hashim Sarkis

The CIAM legacy

Sert, CIAM, and the GSD: a memoir / Eduard F. Sekler

The aesthetic dimension in Le Corbusier's urban planning / Francesco Passanti

Creating a public for modern architecture: Sert's use of images from GATCPAC to The heart of the city / Jordana Mendelson

The Latin American planning experience

Planos, planes y planificación: Josep Lluís Sert and the idea of planning / Timothy Hyde

Josep Lluís Sert's evolving concept of the urban core: between Corbusian form and Mumfordian social practice / Mardges Bacon

The parameters of urban design

Breaking common ground: Joseph Hudnut and the prehistory of urban design / Jill Pearlman

Josep Lluís Sert's urban design legacy / Richard Marshall

From the heart of the city to Holyoke Center: CIAM ideas in Sert's definition of urban design / Eric Mumford

From the ground up: Hideo Sasaki's contributions to urban design / Cammie McAtee

A conversation with Josep Lluís Sert / Robert Campbell

Commentary on selected projects by Sert: curated by Inés Zalduendo and Mary Daniels / Huson Jackson.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780300120653

0300120656

OCLC:

159822121

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