Description
| Product ID: | 9783037785195 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | DE |
| Title: | Marcel Breuer |
| Subtitle: | Building Global Institutions |
| Authors: | Author: Barry Bergdoll, Jonathan Massey |
| Page Count: | 400 |
| Subjects: | Individual architects and architectural firms, Individual architects & architectural firms, Architecture: professional practice, Architecture: public, commercial and industrial buildings, Architecture: professional practice, Public buildings: civic, commercial, industrial, etc |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A contemporary view of Marcel Breuer's radical architecture. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Lars Muller Publishers |
| Publisher Name: | Lars Muller Publishers |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2018-02-28 |