Marcel Breuer: Building Global Institutions

Marcel Breuer (1902‰ÛÒ81) is celebrated as a furniture designer teacher and architect who changed the American house after his emigration from Hungary to the US in 1937. More recently historians architects and‰ۥwith the reopening in New York of the great megalith of his Whitney Museum as the Met Breuer‰ۥa larger public are gaining new insights into the cities and large-scale buildings Breuer planned. Often seen as a pioneer of a ‰ÛÏBrutalist 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.

Paperback: 368 pages

Publisher: Lars MÌÄå?ller Publishers (June 19 2018)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 9783037785195

ISBN-13: 978-3037785195

ASIN: 3037785195

Product Dimensions: 6 x 1.2 x 9 inches

Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds