Josep Lluís Sert: The Architect of Urban Design, 1953-1969

by Eric Mumford (Editor), Hashim Sarkis (Editor), Mardges Bacon (Contribution by), Robert Campbell (Contribution by), Timothy Hyde (Contribution by)

Overview

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 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.

Published in association with the Harvard University Graduate School of Design

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780300120653
Publisher:	Yale University Press
Publication date:	07/15/2008
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	8.30(w) x 10.20(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Eric Mumford is professor of architecture and art history at Washington University in St. Louis. Hashim Sarkis is Aga Khan Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urbanism in Muslim Societies at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.