20th Century Architect, England, UK
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Bentley Wood, nr. Halland, Sussex, southeast England
1935-38
Modern building - Serge’s own house
'Chermayeff House'
De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, England
1934-35
Architects: Mendelsohn and Chermayeff
Serge Chermayeff : Modern building
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English Buildings
Practice Information
born Grozny, North Caucasus, Russia (now Chechnia)
1900-96
died Wellfleet, Massachusetts, USA
Career
Architectural practice set up in 1930
Collaborations with Eric Mendelsohn in thirties
Emigrated to USA in 1940
Teaching
Brooklyn College - Art Department Chairman
New Bauhaus in Chicago - President
Relocated to Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1953
practice with Hayward Cutting
Harvard University - School of Architecture: professor
1953-62
Yale School of Architecture: professor
1962-70
Books
'Community and Privacy'
1964
with Christopher Alexander
'The Shape of Community'
1971
with Alexander Tzonis
Archive
Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University, USA
Related architect : Walter Gropius
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