Marcel Breuer
by Marcel Breuer, Alexander von Vegesack, Mathias Remmele
Architect-designed furnitureArchitect-designed housesArchitectureDesignDomestic Architecture
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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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Architect-designed furnitureArchitect-designed housesArchitectureDesignDomestic ArchitectureExhibitions
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United States20th century
About the author
Marcel Breuer
1902 – 1981
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