S9.com / Biographies /
Breuer, Marcel
Died: 1981 AD, at 79 years of age.
Nationality: Hungarian
Categories: Architects, Furniture Designer
1902 – He was an influential modernist who born on the 21st day of May this year in Hungary.
1920 – He studied and taught at the Bauhaus, stressing the combination of art and technology, and eventually became the head of the carpentry shop there.
1925 – He may be best known for his design of the Wassily Chair, the first tubular bent-steel chair, designed this year for Wassily Kandinsky and inspired in part by bicycle handlebars.
1930 - Due to the rise of the Nazi party in Germany, he was relocated to London.
1941 – He dissolved his partnership with Gropius in May this year and established his own firm in New York.
1945 – It’s The Geller House I, which is the first to employ his concept of the 'binuclear' house.
1949 – A demonstration house set up in the MOMA garden caused a new flurry of interest in the architect's work, and an appreciation written by Peter Blake.
1953 – The commission for UNESCO headquarters in Paris was a turning point for him: his return to Europe, which is a return to larger projects after years of only residential commissions, and the beginning of his adoption of concrete as his primary medium.
1969 – He developed a 30-story proposed skyscraper over Grand Central Terminal, called "Grand Central Tower", which Ada Louise Huxtable called 'a gargantuan tower of aggressive vulgarity. His reputation was damaged in New York.
1981 – He died in New York City.
| | Page last updated: 5:33pm, 20th Mar '07 |
Related Books
  |
Marcel Breuer, Architect: The Career and the Buildings by Isabelle Hyman (Hardcover - Nov 1, 2001) During the course of an illustrious 50-year career that took him from the Bauhaus to London, Harvard University, and then New York, architect Marcel Breuer (1902-1981) generated a huge, influential,...  Usually ships in 24 hours |
 |
  |
Marcel Breuer: Design and Architecture by Marcel Breuer and Alexander Von Vegesack and Mathias Remmele and Barry Bergdoll (Hardcover - Dec 30, 2003) Usually ships in 24 hours |
|
  |
Marcel Breuer: A Memoir by Robert Gatje (Hardcover - Oct 17, 2000)  Usually ships in 24 hours |
|
  |
Marcel Breuer: Furniture and Interiors by Christopher Wilk and Marcel Breuer (Hardcover - Jun 17, 1981) |
|
  |
Furniture Collection: Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, The by Luca Dosi Delfini and Monique Splinter and Jan van Adrichem and Philip van Dalen and Marijke van de Weerdt and H.P. Berlage and Marcel Breuer and K.P.C. de Bazel and Charlotte Perriand and Michael Thonet and Arne Jacobsen (Hardcover - Aug 2, 2004) The Stedelijk Museum opened its doors in 1895, the same year as the first Venice Biennale. It was a "quiet, civilized museum for the Amsterdam bourgeoisie in a time when there was nothing as... Usually ships in 24 hours |
|
 |
Architecture without rules: The houses of Marcel Breuer and Herbert Beckhard by David Masello (Unknown Binding - May 17, 1993) |
|
