Title & Author:

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

Publication:

Zürich, Switzerland : Lars Müller Publishers, [2018]
©2018

Description:

367 pages : illustrations (some color), plans, portraits ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.

Summary:

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

ISBN:

9783037785195 (paperback)
3037785195 (paperback)

Subject:

Breuer, Marcel, 1902-1981.
Breuer, Marcel.
Architects United States Biography.
Modern movement (Architecture) United States.
Architecture, American 20th century.
Architecture Philosophy.
Architectes États-Unis Biographies.
Mouvement moderne (Architecture) États-Unis.
Architecture américaine 20e siècle.
Architecture Philosophie.
Architecture, American.
Architects.
Modern movement (Architecture)
Architecture United States History 20th century
United States.

Form/genre:

Biography
Biographies.

Added entries:

Bergdoll, Barry, editor.
Massey, Jonathan, 1969- editor.
Breuer, Marcel, 1902-1981. Works. Selections.
Bergdoll, Barry editor

Building global institutions

Holdings:

Location: Library main 301842
Call No.: BIB 248029
Status: Available