Main entry:

Sert, José Luis, 1902-1983, author.

Title & Author:

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

Publication:

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

Description:

xviii, 166 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-159) and index.
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.

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 This book includes 16 essays dating from 1951 to 1977, ten of which are previously unpublished.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.

Resources:
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

9780300207392 (hbk.)
0300207395 (hbk.)

Subject:

Sert, José Luis, 1902-1983.
Sert, José Luis 1902-1983
Architecture, Modern 20th century Designs and plans.
Modern movement (Architecture)
Architecture 20e siècle Dessins et plans.
Mouvement moderne (Architecture)
Architecture, Modern.
Stadtgestaltung
Architekturtheorie

Form/genre:

Designs and plans.
Writings.
Architectural drawings.

Added entries:

Mumford, Eric Paul, 1958- editor.
Harvard University. Graduate School of Design.

Josep Lluís Sert

Holdings:

Location: Library main 289911
Call No.: BIB 232607
Status: Available