Josep Lluís Sert

1902–1983 · Catalan (Spanish)-American · 7 buildings on the wall

Josep Lluís Sert (1902–1983) was a Catalan architect and urban planner who worked for Le Corbusier in Paris and co-founded GATCPAC, the group that brought modern architecture to Barcelona in the 1930s. For the 1937 Paris Exposition he designed the Spanish Republic's pavilion, which showed Picasso's Guernica. After Franco's victory he went into exile in the United States, was president of CIAM from 1947 to 1956, and served as dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design from 1953 to 1969.

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In Barcelona, Casa Bloc (1936) was one of the first steps towards decent housing for workers and is now a symbol of the city's rationalist architecture. His close friendships with artists shaped two museums. The Fondation Maeght in Saint-Paul-de-Vence (1964) follows the slope of its site in terraces of galleries, patios and gardens, lit by half-vaulted roofs that catch and spread daylight. The Fundació Joan Miró (1975) stands on Montjuïc in Barcelona. At Harvard he designed the Holyoke Center (1966) and brought Le Corbusier to build the Carpenter Center. Josep Lluís Sert's work is studied for modernism made for climate, art and city life.

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