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David Fixler talks about Le Corbusier's Carpenter Center, which was designed under the umbrella of Jose Luis Sert's office in 1960. Being the only Le Corbusier building in the United States, the building offers a unique response to the context of Cambridge, in David Fixler's words, "a pavilion" that gestures out to different parts of the city, while clearly signing the project with his architectural language.
David Fixler David Fixler (FAIA, LEED BD&C AP) is a historic preservation expert at EYP, president of DOCOMOMO U.S./New England and co-chair of the Association for Preservation Technology International (APTI) Committee on Modern Heritage. An internationally recognized expert on the Modern Movement and Midcentury modern buildings, his projects include the renovation of Alvar Aalto's Baker House at MIT and Louis Kahn's Richards Laboratories at the University of Pennsylvania and he is coeditor of the recently released Aalto and America (2012). David has been published in numerous magazines include Architecture, Architectural Record, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, APT Bulletin, Metropolis, Cultural Resources Management, Traditional Buildings, Spazio (Italy) and PTAH (Finland). He has lectured and taught at Harvard and Columbia Universities, the Universities of Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maryland and Iowa, MIT, RISD, Wellesley College, Wentworth Institute, and the Boston Architectural Center.
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Modernism in Boston - Part 15: Carpenter Center - David Fixler
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Description
The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, home to Harvard's visual arts department and the Sert Gallery, is the only building in the United States designed by influential French architect Le Corbusier (1887-1965).