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Terms and conditions applyJosep Lluis Sert
Jaume Freixa
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Format: Book
Pages: 259
Publisher: Santa & Cole
Date Published: Jul 2005
Stock Code: 39848
Binding: Paperback
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Josep Llus Sert (1902-1983) was one of the more influential Spanish city planners of his time. With his famous notions of city-planning as well as his buildings, Sert secured his position as Dean of the School of Design of Harvard and president of the CIAM (International Congresses of Modern Architecture).
By means of analysis of some of his more emblematic works, this monograph offers a comprehensive approach to the designer. From numerous texts, articles and illustrations, the author allows us to glimpse the personality of this man of outstanding public projection, who understood the importance of his surroundings, the climate and the landscape thereby making him a visionary within building design. Text in English and Spanish.
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Featured Reviews
Eleanor Young is deputy editor of the RIBA Journal
Josep Lluís Sert smuggled local European details into international modernism, though he liked to deny any Mediterranean influence. Even after years as dean of Harvard Graduate Design School – two decades after leaving Spain - he was using Catalan vaults for the 500-unit student housing of Peabody Terrace in Boston. It embodies his ‘enriched modernism’ as author Jaume Freixa dubs it. This book, one of in the series of design classics published by Santa & Cole in both English and Spanish, takes a close look at this kind of small scale detail of Sert’s work, explicitly leaving aside his buildings and ideas about the city. Freixa argument is that Sert used ‘lesser elements’ to define spaces. He picks up on Sert’s interest in the ceiling from vaults to rooflights and takes an in depth look at his treatment of railings that has echoes of a dissertation. However, there is plenty more to the book. Two projects are examined in detail – Sert’s own houses in the US – while nine others, the Joan Miró Foundation in Barcelona being the most public, are given a brief (rather cursory) overview before launching into images and drawings. Extracts of writings on Sert (by Sigfried Giedion among others) are included, together with lectures and writings by the man himself. Despite lacking a solid corpus of technical drawings this format is a useful sourcebook on this under-respresented aspect of Sert’s oeuvre.
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