was recommended by Walter Gropius to become the president of the Institute of Design in Chicago; there, he was a close friend and mentor to Robert Brownjohn. Beginning in 1949, he oversaw the Institute's merger with the Illinois Institute of Technology before ultimately stepping down in 1951. After teaching at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for a year, he served as a professor and chair of the architecture department at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design (1953-1962) and the Yale University School of Architecture (1962-1971). Following his retirement, he briefly taught at Harvard again in 1974. Books and awards He wrote several books, including Community and Privacy with Christopher Alexander in 1964 and The Shape of Community with Alexander Tzonis in 1971. He died in 1996 in Wellfleet. Chermayeff's architectural drawings, project records, photographs, correspondence, teaching and writing papers, and research files are held by the Dept. of Drawings & Archives at Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library at Columbia University. In 1980 he was awarded the Sir Misha Black award and was added to the College of Medallists. Descendants His son Ivan Chermayeff was a prominent graphic designer and a founding partner of New York-based design studio Chermayeff & Geismar. Another son Peter Chermayeff is a prominent architect best known for his design of aquariums, with colleagues, while a founding partner at Cambridge Seven Associates, from 1962 to 1998, at Chermayeff, Sollogub and Poole, 1998–2005, at Chermayeff & Poole, 2005–2009 and currently at Peter Chermayeff LLC. His grandson Sam Chermayeff is an architect and furniture designer in Berlin. See also Cape Cod Modern House Trust References Further reading Chan, Carson (2017). The Chermayeff Century. 032c. Retrieved 29 April 2021. External links Chicago Architects Oral History Project, The Art Institute of Chicago. Serge Chermayeff oral history Serge Chermayeff architectural records and papers, 1909–1980.Held by the Department of Drawings & Archives, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University, New York City. Master builders: Serge Chermayeff (1900–1996) Serge Chermayeff Papers. Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library. 1900 births 1996 deaths Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the United Kingdom Modernist architects People from Grozny People educated at Harrow School People educated at Downsend School Illinois Institute of Technology faculty Harvard Graduate School of Design faculty Yale University faculty Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the United States 20th-century British architects Brooklyn College faculty