Word: sert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...author of this diagnosis is Architect Jose Luis Sert (nephew of famed Spanish muralist Jose Maria Sert), who speaks the view of the International Congresses for Modern Architecture (C.I.A.M.*). To their title question, Can Our Cities Survive? (Harvard University Press; $5), Mr. Sert and his group answer: Not unless they are replanned; considering the shape modern cities are in, the only moot point is whether they will die lingeringly of internal maladies or violently by bombing...
Says Planner Sert: "In its academic and traditional sense, city planning has become obsolete. In its place must be substituted urban biology...
...Sert, aging Spanish muralist, got $357,893 in the settlement of his late wife's estate-$209,000 of it from Barbara Hutton by way of the late Prince Alexis Mdivani. At Mdivani's death in 1935, trusts established for him the year before by Wife Barbara Hutton went to Roussadara Sert, Mdivani's sister...