Marcel Breuer : building global institutions / edited by Barry Bergdoll and Jonathan Massey.
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 th...
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Zürich :
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[2018]
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| Physical Description: | 367 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
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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.