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Marcel Breuer : Building Global Institutions, Paperback / softback Book

Marcel Breuer : Building Global Institutions Paperback / softback

Edited by Barry Bergdoll, Jonathan Massey

Paperback / softback

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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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