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...references to Dean Sert's adherence to the "Mediterranean tradition" sounds terribly chauvinistic as reported by you. My point was ... that the honorable and very ancient tradition of the Mediterranean basin had influenced Sert, and that the choice of these materials, colors, and forms was therefore not an arbitrary act, designed merely to shock...
Discussing Holyoke Center, Sekler admitted that it had to be big, but added, "You don't have to lose the human scale when you have a tall building." He said he thought the married students' apartments, also designed by Jose Luis Sert Dean of the Faculty of Design, much more successful in this regard...
...President and Fellows of Harvard College narrowly escape serious injury when the Harvard University Pavilion, designed by Dean Sert as a miniature version of the tenth House, topples over during the opening ceremonies...
...Harvard Corporation announces that on the recommendation of Jose Luis Sert, Dean of the School of Design, it has commissioned architects Sert, Jackson, and Gourley to construct the tenth House in the form of a "windowless inverted pyramid." Sert applauds the Corporation on its "forward vision," adding, "I see no conflict of interest in my position...
...warm Thursday night, thousands of Harvard men turn out for an Architecture Riot to protest the design of the tenth House. The vibrations of so many people running through the streets cause the giant steel framework of the Sert pyramid to topple into the Charles...