Josep Lluis Sert was a Spanish architect and city planner. He was born on July 1, 1902 in Barcelona, Spain. After graduation from the School of Architecture, Barcelona (1929), Sert worked with Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret in Paris. From 1929 to 1937 he had his own architectural office in Barcelona; works from the period include apartment houses in Barcelona, weekend houses in Garraf, and a master plan for the city of Barcelona. He designed the Spanish pavilion at the Paris World’s Fair (1937) in collaboration with Joan Miró, Alexander Calder, and Pablo Picasso. In 1953 Sert became Dean of the Faculty of the Graduate School of Design and Professor of Architecture at Harvard University. During his tenure he established the Urban Design Program, the first formal urban planning course in the United States. In 1955 he established an office in Cambridge, Massachusetts which eventually transformed into the partnership of Sert, Jackson & Associates. The firm designed several houses, offices and university buildings during the 1960s and 1970s. In 1981 Sert was awarded the AIA Gold Medal.