Josep Lluís Sert López

Josep Lluís Sert López . Spanish architect.

Summary

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• 1 Biographical summary
  • 1Trayectoria
  • 2 Death
• 2 Representative works
• 3Proyectos
• 4Premios
• 5 Sources

biographical synthesis

He was born on July 1 , 1902 in Barcelona , ​​Spain . From a very young age he was interested in the work of Antoni Gaudí , and his uncle, the painter Josep Maria Sert . He studies at the Higher Technical School of Architecture in Barcelona. He travels to Paris in 1927 where he acquires Le Corbusier ‘s publications . With Architect Diploma. In 1929 he moved to Paris and worked in Le Corbusier’s workshop. He attends CIAM II in Frankfurt. In 1939 , at the end of the Spanish Civil War, he was declared unqualified to exercise his profession. He moves to the US and resides inNew York .

Trajectory

In 1930 he began to design his first buildings, which reflect an unmistakable Mediterranean style through their white color and profusion of light. At the same time, these buildings lack ornaments and other unnecessary elements, with which Sert created buildings of a rationalist nature for the first time in Spain. The Tuberculosis Dispensary and the Housing Building on Muntaner Street belong to this period, both in Barcelona. Another notable building by the same author, much less important but closer to its place of origin, is the CEIP Los Conventos de Martorell, built before the Spanish civil war, but due to this fact he did not finish it and for this reason he is not recorded as the architect of said building.

Along with other architects, Sert was a founding member of GATEPAC (Group of Spanish Artists and Technicians for the Progress of Contemporary Architecture) to be the Spanish branch of the International Congress of Modern Architecture—, which was established in Zaragoza in 1930 at the initiative of Fernando García Mercadal to promote the rationalist style in Spanish architecture and that in Catalonia used the denomination of GATCPAC, “Grup d’Arquitectes i Tècnics Catalans pel Progrés de l’Arquitectura Contemporànea”. GATEPAC had, in addition to the eastern or Catalan headquarters, the north and the central, which referred respectively to the Basque and Madrid groups. He also attended the initial meetings of CIAM, the international conferences on modern architecture,in Frankfurt , one of those who would end up being its president after Le Corbusier. At the end of the Civil War, he was retaliated against by the Franco government , and disqualified from practicing architecture, after which, in 1941 , he went into exile in the United States , where he created, together with other architects, an architecture and urban planning studio, which he called Town Planning Associates. The studio carried out several urban projects, especially in [[[Latin America]], such as the pilot plan for Havana .

After being a professor of architecture at Yale University for a year , Sert was appointed dean of the Harvard University School of Design in 1953 , a position he held until 1969 . In 1955 he founded a new architectural firm with several partners, which carried out projects throughout the United States , both commercial, residential, institutional and office. Around the university Sert designed several buildings that are part of his representative works and in which the Mediterranean atmosphere that Sert preserved in his designs throughout his professional life is reflected.

Death

He died on March 15 , 1983 in Barcelona , ​​Spain .

Representative works

• Tuberculosis Dispensary (Barcelona)
• Josefa López Housing Building, Muntaner street, 342 (Barcelona)
• Roca Jewelry (currently, Tous) Paseo de Gracia, 18 (Barcelona)
• Escuela del Segell Pro Infància (Arenys de Mar)
• Pavilion of the Republic (Barcelona)
• Pavilion of the Spanish Republic, 1937 Paris International Exhibition
• Joan Miró Foundation (Barcelona)
• Maeght Foundation (Saint Paul de Vence, France)
• Science Center, Harvard University (Boston)
• Harvard University Apartments (Boston)
• Centro Holyoke (Boston)
• Embassy of the United States (Baghdad)
• Joan Miró studio Pilar and Joan Miró Foundation, Palma de Mallorca
• Casa Sert in Cambridge, Massachusetts; 1958

Projects

• 1929Summer village on the Costa Brava, Platja d’Aro, Spain.
• 1929– 1930 Duclos House, Seville, Spain.
• 1930Studies project with housing in Cala Sant Vicens, Menorca, Spain.
• 1930– 1931 House with duplex apartments in Muntaner street, Barcelona, ​​Spain.
• 1931Local GATCPAC, Barcelona, ​​Spain.
• 1932Elementary School in Palausolitar, Barcelona, ​​Spain.
• 1932Minimal homes for the beach, Spain.
• 1932Project School group in Bogatell avenue, Barcelona, ​​Spain.
• 1932Casa Galobart, Barcelona, ​​Spain.
• 1932– 1936 Casa bloc, Barcelona, ​​Spain.
• 1933– 1934 Roca Jewelry, Barcelona, ​​Spain.
• 1933– 1935 Macià Plan. Studies for a Master Plan for Barcelona, ​​Barcelona, ​​Spain.
• 1933– 1935 Central Tuberculosis Dispensary, Barcelona, ​​Spain.
• 1934Rest and Vacation City Project, leisure center, Barcelona, ​​Spain.
• 1934– 1935 Weekend houses, Garraf, Spain.
• 1936Location for the Union of Cooperators of Gavá, Gavá, Spain.
• [[1936 House on a rooftop, Barcelona, ​​Spain.
• 1936– 1937 Spanish Pavilion at the International Exhibition of Paris 1937, Paris, France.
• 1943Proecto Cidade dos Motores, Cidade dos Motores, Brazil.
• 1947– 1948 New City of Chimbote Project, Chimbote, Peru.
• 1949Sert House in Locust Valley, Long Island, USA
• 1949Block of flats for rent with enclosures based on latticework and shutters, Pomona, Venezuela.
• 1949Courtyard houses for a residential neighborhood, Isla de Pinos, Cuba.
• 1949Medellin Master Plan, Medellin, Colombia.
• 1949Proposals for the tropical habitat, Tumaco, Colombia.
• 1951Urbanization La Pomona, La Pomona, Venezuela.
• 1951Project Church in the civic center, Puerto Ordaz, Venezuela.
• 1951– 1953 Master Plan Project for Bogotá, Bogotá, Colombia.
• 1955– 1958 Havana Pilot Plan, Havana, Cuba.
• 1957Residential Palace Project, Havana, Cuba.
• 1957– 1958 Study for the painter Joan Miró, Son Abrines, Spain.
• 1957– 1958 Sert House in Cambridge, Cambridge, USA
• 1958– 1965 Holyoke Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA. UU.
• 1960Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA.
• 1960Embassy of the United States, Baghdad, Iraq.
• 1960Project House for the painter Georges Braque, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France.
• 1961Oficinas de la New England Gas and Electric Association, Cambridge, EE. UU.
• 1961House on the Paseo de la Muralla, Ibiza, Spain.
• 1961– 1963 Married Student Housing, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
• 1963– 1966 Mugar Library, Boston University, Boston, USA. UU.
• 1963– 1966 Student Center, Boston University, Boston, USA
• 1963– 1966 Law Tower, Boston University, Boston, USA
• 1964Marguerite and Aimé Maeght Foundation, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France.
• 1965Project Central Business Area, Worcester, USA
• 1965– 1968 University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada.
• 1966South Station Transportation and Trade Center Project, Boston, USA.
• 1966– 1971 Houses in Punta Martinet, Ibiza, Spain.
• 1967Government Center Chapel Project, Boston, USA.
• 1967Interama Project: Latin American Cultural Center, Miami, USA.
• 1968Shapire Bay Project, St. Thomas Island, USA
• 1968Project Regional School of Fine Arts, Besançon, France.
• 1969Apartments in Punta Martinet, Ibiza, Spain.
• 1969Serra Cove Project, Ibiza, Spain.
• 1969Frioul Islands Project, Marseille, France.
• 1971Bunker Hill Elementary School Project, Charlestown, USA. UU.
• 1972Carmel de la Paix Convent, Mazalle, France.
• 1972East Hills Project, Ithaca, USA. UU.
• 1972Martin Luther King Elementary School, Cambridge, USA. UU.
• 1972– 1973 Faculty of Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
• 1972– 1975 Center for Contemporary Art Studies, Joan Miró Foundation, Barcelona, ​​Spain.
• 1973Office Building 44 Brattle Street, Cambridge, USA
• 1973Les Escales Park, residential building, Barcelona, ​​Spain.
• 1973–1974Riverview, Yonkers, EE. UU.
• 1974– 1976 Roosevelt Island Homes, New York, USA
• 1975MIT Student Residence, Cambridge, USA
• 1975Pilot Sector Project for Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran.
• 1976Building Project for the Savings Bank of Catalonia and Cultural Center, Barcelona, ​​Spain.
• 1976Puerta Catalana Project, service area on the Mediterranean motorway, La Junquera, Spain.

prizes

• 1970Medal and Honorary Chair of Architecture Thomas Jefferson.
• 1976Gold Medal from the French Academie d’Architecture.
• 1981Gold Medal for Architecture (CSCAE).