Marcel Breuer

Alternate Titles

• Sun and shadow

Description

Marcel Breuer (1902-1981) is celebrated as a furniture designer, teacher, and architect who changed the American house after his emigration from Hungary to the U.S.A. in 1937. More recently historians, architects, and -- with the reopening in New York of the great megalith of his Whitney Museum as the Met Breuer -- a larger public are gaining new insights into the cities and large-scale buildings Breuer planned. Often seen as a pioneer of a "Brutalist modernism" of reinforced concrete, Breuer might best be understood through the lens of the changing institutional structures in and for which he worked, a vantage developed in the fresh approaches gathered here in essays by a group of younger scholars. These essays draw on an abundance of newly available documents held in the Breuer Archive at Syracuse University, now accessible online.

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Other Editions

• Marcel Breuer: sun and shadow : the philosophy of an architectDodd, Mead1956-01-01
• Marcel BreuerG. Hatje1962-01-01
• Marcel BreuerSociété de création et d'édition publicitaire1969-01-01
• Marcel BreuerHatje1970-01-01
• Marcel BreuerPraeger1970-01-01
• Marcel Breuers.n.]1972-01-01