Word: sert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Announcing the nation's highest award in architecture, AIA Newsletter editor Peter C. McCall said yesterday, "So influential and far-reaching is the work of Jose Luis Sert that the social awareness and concepts of artistic collaboration that he brought to the practice of architecture have become almost commonplace...
...Sert, the 42nd architect to win the award, said yesterday it reflects his accomplishments in "teaching and the relationship of architecture to art and people...
...very excited for Sert," Gerald M. McCue, dean of the Graduate School of Design, said yesterday. McCue added that Sert's greatest accomplishment at Harvard was the creation of a degree program in urban design...
...addition to the Science Center and Holyoke Center, Sert designed the University's married student housing, Peabody Terrace, which won the AIA Honor Award in 1965. Other buildings he designed in the Boston area include the Boston University library and the Divinity School's World Religious Center...
Citing the Holyoke Center promenade and the low-scale face of the Science Center, both of which are "designed to generate street activity," Louis J. Bakanowsky, professor of Architecture, said yesterday that Sert's work stresses "the shape of the city consistent with the high quality of human life...