Word: sert
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...schoolhouse-style history lesson sans the rhyming cartoons: the Carpenter Center, designed to be an artwork unto itself, is the brainchild of Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier—a self-created title meaning “the rooster” in French. Josep Sert, Spanish architect and the Design School dean at the time, commissioned Le Corbusier (affectionately called ‘Corbu’) to create the Carpenter Center despite reluctance from the Harvard administration. An international meeting of artistic minds, to say the least...
...that has taken shape between the Carpenter Center’s pilotis. A 20-minute film version of that production—complete with Hollywood-style special effects—will be screened in the auditorium during the opening night. It will then continue its run in the upstairs Sert Gallery until April 17 of next year. A multifaceted and unusual project, Huyghe’s film is the result of a similarly complex and atypical interfaculty collaboration involving the Harvard University Art Museums, Graduate School of Design, and the Visual and Environmental Studies department...
When the University’s 1957-8 Committee on the Practice of the Visual Arts recommended to President Nathan Pusey that Harvard launch a formal program in the arts, then-Dean of the Graduate School of Design, Josép Lluis Sert (also reincarnated as puppet) recommended Le Corbusier for the job. The building, built to house the nascent VES department, was to become a laboratory for creativity and a catalyst for the understanding of art at Harvard. The Carpenter Center as synthèse des arts was a utopian challenge for Corbusier, whose recent and no less idealistic...
...Corbusier. “Huyghe + Corbusier: Harvard Project,” designed by Pierre Huyghe, explores the building’s design history. Custom-crafted marionettes take the stage in the temporary architectural extension; meanwhile, a Huyghe film based on the puppet opera will be screened in the Sert Gallery. Free and open to the public; opening reception with the artist, 6-8 p.m. at the Carpenter Center. (ECMV...
Huyghe’s project, which will take place, at least in part, in the Harvard University Art Museums’s Sert Gallery on the third floor of the Carpenter Center, might potentially extend to the building itself. Norden notes that Huyghe “wants to do something that will really entail the site. He doesn’t want to bow down to the father...