Marcel Breuer

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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.

subjects: Architect-designed furniture,  Architect-designed houses,  Architecture,  Design,  Domestic Architecture,  Exhibitions,  History,  Modern Architecture,  Industrial / Commercial Art & Design,  Individual Architect,  Architectural practice, International,  1902-,  Design - Furniture,  Catalogs,  Art,  Interior Design - General,  Architectural practice, Intern,  Breuer, Marcel,,  Architecture, modern, 20th century,  Furniture design,  Industrial design,  Architects,  Biography,  Modern movement (Architecture),  Art, exhibitions

People: Marcel Breuer (1902-),  Marcel Breuer (1902-,)

Places: United States

Times: 20th century