Word: sert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Former President Nathan M. Pusey '28 recruited Sert in 1953 to supervise a wide-ranging expansion of Harvard facilities which included the three buildings Sert designed...
During his 16-year reign at the GSD, Sert created the first American degree in Urban Design a part of his broader interest in city planning...
Juan B. Marichal, Smith Professor of French and Spanish Languages and Literatures and a personal friend of Sert, said yesterday that the buildings Sert designed at Harvard reflected this concern. His plans for the Science Center, for example, called for huge, centralized lecture halls in order to cut down the time students spend traveling from class to class, Marichal said...
...Sert's architecture is successful because his buildings are designed to lure people into them. McCue said Sert's work "typifies what new buildings ought to be they invite and entice the public through them...
...Sert sought to bring "a new creativity" to the Harvard campus. Huson Jackson, a business partner of Sert, said yesterday. "He was not content to continue building in the old Georgian and Victorian style," Jackson said. As part of this effort. Sert brought the prominent French modernist architect Charles Le Corbusier to Harvard in 1963 to design the Carpenter Center, the tamed designer's only American work...