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Marcel Breuer Book : building global institutions / edited by Barry Bergdoll and Jonathan Massey.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextDescription: 367 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9783037785195 (paperback)
Contained works:
  • Breuer, Marcel, 1902-1981. Selections. Works
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 720.92 23
Other classification:
  • 720.92
Summary: 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.
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Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Books Books Junaid Zaidi Library, COMSATS University Islamabad 720.92 MAR 62707 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 10001000062707
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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.

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