Serge Chermayeff, Modernist Building, English Architecture, Modernism, Project

Serge Chermayeff, Architect : Architecture

20th Century Architect, England, UK



Serge Chermayeff Architect - Key Projects

Featured Buildings by Serge Ivan Chermayeff, alphabetical:

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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Serge Chermayeff - Practice Information

born 1900 in Grozny, North Caucasus, Russia (now Chechnia)

Serge Chermayeff : Modern Architect

Serge died 1996 in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, USA

Career
Architectural practice set up in 1930

Collaborations with Eric Mendelsohn in thirties

Serge Chermayeff 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

Serge Chermayeff : Russian Architects



Related architect : Walter Gropius

English Buildings

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