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Josep Lluís Sert

The Architect of Urban Design, 1953-1969

Josep Lluís Sert( )
Editor: Mumford, Eric
Sarkis, Hashim
Contribution by: Bacon, Mardges
Campbell, Robert
Hyde, Timothy
Marshall, Richard
McAtee, Cammie
Mendelson, Jordana
Passanti, Francesco
Pearlman, Jill
Sekler, Eduard
ISBN:978-0-300-12065-3
Publication Date:Jul 2008
Publisher:Yale University Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:AUD $113.95
Book Description:

This book examines the emergence and evolution of the discipline of urban design as articulated through the work of Josep Lluís 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...
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Book Details
Pages:256
Detailed Subjects: Architecture / Individual Architects & Firms / General
Political Science / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):2.12 x 2.62 x 0.25 cm
Book Weight:1.158 Kilograms
Author Biography
(Editor)


Robert Campbell was born on March 31, 1937 in Buffalo, New York. He is a writer and an architect. Campbell is a graduate of Harvard College, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa, the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, and the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where he received the Appleton Traveling Fellowship and Francis Kelley Prize. Campbell became an architect in 1975, as a consultant for the improvement of cultural institutions, including the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He has been an urban design consultant to cities and is an advisor to the Mayors' Institute on City Design, which he helped found. In 1997 he was architect-in-residence at the American Academy in Rome.

Campbell's poems have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly and Harvard Review, among other publications. Campbell has taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, the Boston Architectural Center, and the University of North Carolina. He also is a former Visiting Scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 1993-2002 he was visiting Sam Gibbons Eminent Scholar in Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of South Florida. In 2003 he was a Senior Fellow in the National Arts Journalism Program at Columbia University.

In 1996, Campbell won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. A Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, he has received the AIA¿s Medal for Criticism; the Commonwealth Award of the Boston Society of Architects; and a Design Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2002 he won a national Columbia Dupont Award for "Beyond the Big Dig". He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

His titles include Cityscapes of Boston: An American City Through Time and Civic Builders.

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