Marcel Breuer : building global institutions /

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 a...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Bergdoll, Barry (Editor), Massey, Jonathan, 1969- (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Zürich : Lars Müller Publishers, [2018]
Subjects:	Breuer, Marcel, > 1902-1981. Architects > United States > Biography. Modern movement (Architecture) > United States. Architecture > Philosophy.

Table of Contents:

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.