http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
367 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
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 United States 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.
Introduction: Bureaucratic genius -- I. Saint John's Abbey. Marcel Breuer and the invention of heavy lightness / Barry Bergdoll -- II. UNESCO. Architecture and mediocracy at UNESCO house / Lucia Allais -- Marcel Breuer: structure and shadow / Guy Nordenson -- III. Precast panel. From garden city to concrete city: Breuer and Yorke's garden city of the future / Teresa Harris -- Atomic bauhaus: Marcel Breuer and big science / John Harwood -- IV. New York. Architectures of opportunity at Breuer's Bronx campus / Jonathan Massey -- V. France. Modernism as accomodation / Kenny Cupers with Laura Martinez de Guereñu -- Breuer's ancillary strategy: symbols, signs, and structures at the intersection of modernism and postmodernism / Timothy M. Rohan -- VI. Global Breuer. Postface: the Marcel Breuer digital archive at Syracuse University / Lucy Mulroney.
edited by Barry Bergdoll and Jonathan Massey.
Includes bibliographical references and index.