Marcel Breuer: Building Global Institutions

Marcel Breuer (1902-81) 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--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.

Author: Barry Bergdoll
Publisher: Lars Muller Publishers
Published: 06/19/2018
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.30lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.60w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9783037785195

About the Author
Bergdoll, Barry: - Barry Bergdoll is Professor of Art History and Archeology at Columbia University and Curator in the Department of Architecture and Design in the Museum of Modern Art, New York.Massey, Jonathan: - Jonathan Massey is Professor and Dean of Architecture at California College of the Arts. His current research examines the ways architecture manages our consumption

of resources.