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
1934-35
Architects: Mendelsohn and Chermayeff

Serge Chermayeff : Modern building

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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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