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17-595: Primarily designed by José Luis Sert (then dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design ) and completed in 1966, the Smith Campus Center is an H-shaped ten-story reinforced concrete building. Low-rise portions, including an underground parking garage , have a larger footprint of 360,000 square feet (33,000 m). The building was constructed in two phases over a six-year period between 1960 and 1966. The first phase—the southern half of

34-654: A partnership with Huson Jackson and Ronald Gourley. Joseph Zalewski was the Associate and continued to be in the firm Sert, Jackson and Associates founded in 1963. The studio designed many well-known projects including the Maeght Foundation (1959–1964) in southern France, the Fundació Miró (museum) in Barcelona (1975) and quite a few buildings for Harvard University , including Holyoke Center (1958–1965),

51-604: Is named after the Garraf Massif . The capital is the city of Vilanova i la Geltrú . The GR 92 long-distance footpath, which roughly follows the length of the Mediterranean coast of Spain, has a staging point at Garraf. Stage 21 links northwards to Bruguers , a distance of 15.6 kilometres (9.7 mi), whilst stage 22 links southwards to Vilanova i la Geltrú , a distance of 22.0 kilometres (13.7 mi). This Province of Barcelona location article

68-627: The Harvard Graduate School of Design (1953–1969). There, Sert initiated the world's first degree program in urban design ; integrated the programs of architecture, planning, landscape and urban design, and taught many of today's leading architects. During this period, he served on the Advisory Board of the newly created Graham Foundation in Chicago, Illinois. In 1955, Sert founded a studio in Cambridge, Massachusetts which in 1958 became

85-861: The Harvard Science Center (1969–1972), Peabody Terrace (apartments, 1962–1964), and the Center for the Study of World Religions at the Harvard Divinity School . Among other notable buildings in the vicinity are a complex at Boston University including its law school , student union , and main library (1960–1965), Sert's home in Cambridge, as well as the Martin Luther King elementary school (1968–1971), located across from Peabody Terrace. In New York, he completed

102-544: The 1930s, Sert co-founded the group GATCPAC ( Grup d'Artistes i Tècnics Catalans per al Progrés de l'Arquitectura Contemporània , i.e. Group of Catalan Artists and Technicians for the Progress of Contemporary Architecture), which later was the prominent association, with the addition of the western and north groups, of the GATEPAC (Grupo de Artistas y Técnicos Españoles para el Progreso de l'Arquitectura Contemporánea), which

119-933: The Eastwood and Westview apartments on Roosevelt Island , NYC (1976). In 1961, Sert brought Le Corbusier to the United States to design the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard , and a gallery in the Carpenter Center is now named in Sert's honor. In 1981, he received the AIA Gold Medal . Josep Lluis Sert counted amongst his close friends the likes of Alexander Calder , Joan Miró , Georges Braque , and Marc Chagall , for whom he designed studios and homes. He brought art into

136-827: The Harvard curriculum through his commissioning of the Carpenter Center and his subsequent avid support for it. His design for the Fondation Maeght in Saint-Paul-de-Vence , France, the Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona and the Museum School were more than an architect-client relationship, they were partnerships in the discovery of modern art. Among Sert's students and colleagues in his studio were leading and past master architects from

153-612: The Spanish Republic's pavilion at the Paris Exposition of 1937 . For the artistic content of the building, Sert called on his artist friends Pablo Picasso , Joan Miró , and Alexander Calder . Picasso's contribution was Guernica , which became the focal attraction of Sert's design. After the fascist forces of Francisco Franco won the Spanish Civil War in 1939, Sert, like most members of GATCPAC,

170-541: The United States, Spain, France, Bolivia and Brazil, Venezuela, as well as Dolf Schnebli of Switzerland, Fumihiko Maki of Japan, and Christopher Charles Benninger of India. El Garraf 41°19′N 1°49′E  /  41.317°N 1.817°E  / 41.317; 1.817 Garraf ( Catalan pronunciation: [ɡəˈraf] ), is a comarca (county) in the Penedès region in Catalonia , Spain . It

187-904: The artworks have been publicly displayed only five times, most recently from November 2014 to July 2015, at the newly renovated Harvard Art Museums . Danh Vō 's We the People was installed in honor of Drew Gilpin Faust as part of the renovation of the building in 2018. Originally known as Holyoke Center, in 2013 it was renamed the Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Campus Center. Over the next several years, its underwent extensive renovation to create gathering, lounge, and study spaces, and space for exhibitions, events, and performances, after reopening in 2018. Jos%C3%A9 Luis Sert Josep Lluís Sert i López ( Catalan pronunciation: [ʒuˈzɛb ʎuˈis ˈsɛɾt] ; 1 July 1902 – 15 March 1983)

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204-485: The building facing Mount Auburn Street—began in 1960 and was occupied in 1962. Construction of the second phase began in 1964 and was completed in 1966. The landscaped area at the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Dunster Street—known as Forbes Plaza—was completed the following year in 1967. As a permanent tribute, the plaza and arcade inside the Holyoke Center were named in honor of Edward W. Forbes . The occasion

221-468: Was Harvard's first highrise building, and has been called a " gray elephant " for the color of its concrete facades. From 1964 to 1979, the penthouse dining room was decorated with five large paintings installed by Mark Rothko , an Abstract Expressionist artist. Due to high levels of direct sunlight onto the paintings and the presence of lithol red's calcium salt, the paintings faded severely and were moved to protective storage in 1979. Since their removal,

238-655: Was a Catalan architect and city planner established in the USA after 1939. Born in Barcelona , Catalonia , Spain, Sert showed keen interest in the works of his uncle, the painter Josep Maria Sert , and of Antoni Gaudí . He studied architecture at the Escola Superior d'Arquitectura in Barcelona and set up his own studio in 1929. That same year Sert moved to Paris, in response to an invitation from Le Corbusier to work for him (without payment). Returning to Barcelona in 1930, he continued his practice there until 1937. During

255-682: Was disqualified from practising as an architect in Spain, and went into exile in the United States, where he lived until Franco's death, when he returned to Barcelona. In his first years in New York City he worked with the Town Planning Associates, carrying out numerous urban plans for cities in South America. In 1952, Sert held a one-year Visiting Professorship at Yale University . The following year he became Dean of

272-874: Was in turn the Spanish branch of the Congrès International d'Architecture Moderne (CIAM). Sometime later, Sert became President of CIAM (1947–1956). He created several outstanding pieces of modern architecture during this period, such as the week-end house in El Garraf , Catalonia (1935), the Central Dispensary of Barcelona (1935) and the Master Plan for the City of Barcelona (1933–1935). From 1937 through 1939, Sert lived in Paris, where he designed

289-685: Was marked by a ceremony on 17 October 1966 After the first phase of construction in 1963, the Harvard Crimson cited a local joke: "The one nice feature about Holyoke Center is that it's the one place in Cambridge from which you can't see Holyoke Center".  Within a few years the building's novel design and technical features began to present numerous difficulties, which a Harvard official likened to "a five-car accident at an intersection. You just can't tell what caused it."  These included crumbling of exterior structural concrete and an inefficient three-pipe heating and cooling system. It

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