Sert Proposes To Introduce New Design 1

There is a need for a "new, humanized architecture," expressing the spirit of the modern world, and taught through courses like the old Design 1, Jose Luis Sert stated last night.

Sert addressed an audience of 300 in his first appearance here since the announcement of his appointment, commencing next September, as dean of the Graduate school of Design.

After the lecture, Sert stated that he intends to offer a course similar to the old design 1 if funds are available.

Asserting that "functionalism also is a blind alley," Sert maintained that architecture must use the combined resources of the plastic arts to "embody a way of life."

This could be accomplished, he said, through the development of three types of architects: the researcher, the builder, and the city planner. Most of what is fashionable in modern design depends of cliche, or does not achieve a pattern integrated with its surroundings, he stated. He stressed the roles of these three kinds of architects, especially the city planner, in carrying out an esthetic architectural program.