Sert, José Luis

Catalan Josep Lluís Sert i Lopéz

(born July 1, 1902, Barcelona, Spain—died March 15, 1983, Barcelona) Spanish-born U.S. architect. After graduating from Barcelona's School of Architecture, he worked with Le Corbusier in Paris. On his own, he designed the Spanish pavilion at the Paris World's Fair (1937). After moving to the U.S. in 1939, he worked in urban development for Bogotá and Havana, among other cities. He served as dean of the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University (1953–59), Cambridge, Mass. His work is best exemplified by his Peabody Terrace married-students' housing at Harvard (1963–65), in which high-rise and low-rise apartment buildings are harmoniously interconnected. His outstanding museum designs include the Maeght Foundation in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France (1968), and the Joan Miró Foundation in Barcelona (1975).

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