Eduard Sekler, Carpenter Center’s inaugural director, dead at 96

Thursday, May 18, 2017 - 14:21 in Mathematics & Economics

Eduard Franz Sekler, an architecture historian and first director of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, died on May 1. He was 96. The Austria-born Sekler studied in Vienna and, later, London, before joining the faculty at Harvard in 1954 at the invitation of Josep Lluís Sert, who was dean of the Graduate School of Design at the time. In 1962, Sekler became coordinator of studies at the newly built CCVA, becoming its director four years later. In his decade overseeing the Le Corbusier-designed building, he brought to bear a mission that extended far beyond art design. Said Alfred Guzzetti, Osgood Hooker Professor of Visual Arts: “I saw Eduard as a very European presence. Through Eduard’s recruitment of faculty and staff, he strengthened the European — and even international — character of the enterprise. He saw design at the center, opening out to the broader practices of the contemporary visual arts...

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