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Author Sert, José Luis, 1902-1983, author.

Title The writings of Josep Lluís Sert / edited by Eric Mumford ; foreword by Mohsen Mostafavi.

Publication Info. New Haven : Yale University Press ; Cambridge : Harvard Graduate School of Design, [2015]
©2015

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 166 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-159) and index.
Summary "Josep Lluís Sert (1902-1983) was the last president of CIAM (International Congresses of Modern Architecture) and dean of the Harvard University Graduate School of Design from 1953 to 1969, where he founded the discipline of urban design. His writings offer a new view of his activities in architecture and urban planning, and provide the intellectual context for his own work as an architect, much of which is still controversial and often poorly understood. This book includes 16 essays dating from 1951 to 1977, ten of which are previously unpublished. The Writings of Josep Lluís Sert illuminates Sert's contributions to 20th-century architecture, urban design, and design pedagogy, and makes clear the similarities and differences between his ideas and those of his mentor, Le Corbusier. The essays reveal Sert's advocacy both for pedestrian urbanism and for planning in relation to the natural environment, ideas that have become important issues in contemporary urban design. Each text is introduced by the editor, Eric Mumford, a scholar of CIAM, Sert, and modern urbanism."--Publisher's website.
Contents Foreword / Mohsen Mostafavi -- Introduction / Eric Mumford -- The theme of the Congress: the core -- The neighborhood unt: a human measure in city planning -- Urban design -- Architecture and the visual arts -- New York: architecture and the city -- Ciam X: Dubrovnik -- Harvard: urban problem and opportunity -- The human scale: key to the measure of cities -- Architectural fashions and the people -- Boston: a lively and human city -- The role of government in the form and animation of the urban core -- Open spaces and pedestrian paths in the university -- Sigfried Giedion in memoriam -- Architecture and the people: there are two histories of architecture -- Industrialization: an opportunity for the design of new communities -- Balance in the human habitat.
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Subject Sert, José Luis, 1902-1983.
Sert, José Luis, 1902-1983.
Architecture, Modern -- 20th century -- Designs and plans.
Architecture, Modern.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Modern movement (Architecture)
Modern movement (Architecture)
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Architectural drawings.
Electronic books.
Architectural drawings.
Added Author Mumford, Eric Paul, 1958- editor.
Harvard University. Graduate School of Design.
Added Title Works. Selections https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2015076463
Josep Lluís Sert
Other Form: Print version: Sert, José Luis, 1902-1983. Works. Selections. Writings of Josep Lluís Sert 9780300207392 (DLC) 2014939883 (OCoLC)886493471
ISBN 9780300212846 (electronic book)
0300212844 (electronic book)
9780300207392
0300207395