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...architect of many of Harvard’s most monumental and prominent buildings, Josep Lluís Sert remains controversial even 20 years after his death...
...unmistakable Modernist style continue to raise the ire of the red-brick-and-ivy set, as many of his projects did when they were first built. The designer of Peabody Terrace, the Holyoke Center, the Science Center and the Carpenter Center (with Le Corbusier as lead designer), Sert occupies the role of Harvard’s most influential architect...
...organizers of “Josep Lluís Sert: The Architect of Urban Design, 1953-1969” and “Josep Lluís Sert: Architect to the Arts II,” concurrent exhibitions now on display in Gund Hall and the Carpenter Center’s Sert Gallery, believe that Sert’s overall influence on the shaping of urban design is greater than the sum of his individual Harvard commissions...
...There’s a reliability in his work, which is not a very glamorous adjective,” says Mary Daniels, curator of the retrospective with Inés Zalduendo. In addition to his work as an architect, Sert was also an educational innovator, creating the first formal urban design program while dean of Harvard’s Graduate School of Design (GSD) during the 1950s...
...site. The building was designed by the firm of Rodolfo Machado and Jorge Silvetti, chosen from an initial pool of 40 firms worldwide. Machado and Silvetti are both tenured faculty at the Graduate School of Design (GSD), continuing a Harvard tradition of building buildings designed by faculty. Josep Lluis Sert, dean of the GSD from 1953-69, was responsible for the Holyoke Center, the Science Center, and Peabody Terrace...