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Josep Lluís Sert : the architect of urban design, 1953-1969 / edited by Eric Mumford and Hashim Sarkis ; with Neyran Turan.

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Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New Haven : Yale University Press ; Cambridge : Harvard University Graduate School of Design , c2008.Description: 247 p. : illus. ; 26 cmISBN:

9780300120653

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DDC classification:

720.92 SER

LOC classification:

NA9085.S47 J67 2008

Contents:

Introduction / Hashim Sarkis -- The CIAM legacy -- Sert, CIAM, and the GSD: a memoir / Eduard F. Sekler -- The aesthetic dimension in Le Corbusier's urban planning / Francesco Passanti -- Creating a public for modern architecture: Sert's use of images from GATCPAC to The heart of the city / Jordana Mendelson -- The Latin American planning experience -- Planos, planes y planificación: Josep Lluís Sert and the idea of planning / Timothy Hyde -- Josep Lluís Sert's evolving concept of the urban core: between Corbusian form and Mumfordian social practice / Mardges Bacon -- The parameters of urban design -- Breaking common ground: Joseph Hudnut and the prehistory of urban design / Jill Pearlman -- Josep Lluís Sert's urban design legacy / Richard Marshall -- From the heart of the city to Holyoke Center: CIAM ideas in Sert's definition of urban design / Eric Mumford -- From the ground up: Hideo Sasaki's contributions to urban design / Cammie McAtee -- A conversation with Josep Lluís Sert / Robert Campbell -- Commentary on selected projects by Sert: curated by Inés Zalduendo and Mary Daniels / Huson Jackson.

Summary: This book examines the emergence and evolution of the discipline of urban design as articulated through the work of Josep Lluis Sert (1902 - 1983), one of its most influential practitioners. Sert was noted for his city planning and urban development projects in Europe, South America, and the United States, and the master plans of his later career were significant for their integration of natural landscape features into the urban building scheme. With essays by leading scholars and a wide selection of archival materials, illustrations, plans, and maps, this book provides a timely look at the man who advocated the idea of "urban consciousness" and an architecture that dealt with the total environment -well before these concepts became commonplace.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	720.92 SER (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		008129

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This book examines the emergence and evolution of the discipline of urban design as articulated through the work of Josep Lluis Sert (1902 - 1983), one of its most influential practitioners. Sert was noted for his city planning and urban development projects in Europe, South America, and the United States, and the master plans of his later career were significant for their integration of natural landscape features into the urban building scheme. With essays by leading scholars and a wide selection of archival materials, illustrations, plans, and maps, this book provides a timely look at the man who advocated the idea of "urban consciousness" and an architecture that dealt with the total environment -well before these concepts became commonplace.

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