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October 6 - November 19, 2003
This exhibit displays works of Josep
Lluís Sert, who was dean of the Harvard Graduate School of
Design, active in architectural circles such as GATEPAC, an original
member of CIAM, and was deeply influenced by Le Corbusier as a fellow
architect and urbanist.
The exhibit showcases his Bogota and Havana
master plans, several significant buildings designed for Harvard and
Boston University, and New York’s Roosevelt Island, as well
as his unrealized projects. These projects show his belief in institutions
as generators of urban form, and university campuses as micro-cities.
Sert designed the “hearts of the city” where architecture
was not isolated but closely related to its urban setting, and defined
urban types that operated at a scale between an individual building
and that of the urban context.
This exhibition was organized by Mary F. Daniels, Librarian, and Inés
Zalduendo, Project Archivist, Special Collections Department, Frances
Loeb Library, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, in consultation
with Professors Jorge Silvetti and Hashim Sarkis. This exhibition
was made possible through funding from the Josep Lluís Sert
and Ramona Longas de Sert Bequest to the GSD.