In the course of its 32 years in professional practice, Gwathmey & Siegel has developed more than 300 projects in different parts of the world. The more than 80 people that comprise the group have earned an international reputation with some 100 awards.

The work of Sert is a clear reinterpretation of Mediterranean architecture: the brise-soleil -- as a kind of revitalizing of the wall, the building taken into its own self-reflection, turned to the inside as a place of repose and introspection.