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Josep Lluis Sert, former dean of the Graduate School of Design (GSD) and an internationally prominent architect, who designed several of Harvard's newest buildings, died of cancer Monday at age 80 in Spain...
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...
Before coming to the United States in 1939, Sert, who was a protege of the French architect Le Corbusier, worked in Paris and Barcelona. Among his well known European works are the Spanish Pavilion for the 1937 Paris Exposition and the Maeght Foundation in southern France...
...Sert is author of the book "Can Our Cities Survive?" and co-author of "The Heart of the City...
...will present the Gold Medal--which it considers a mark of the "most distinguished service to the architectural profession or to the institute"--to Sert at its 1981 national convention in Minneapolis...