Breuer (1902–1981) is celebrated as an architect, furniture designer and teacher who is known as a form-giver of modern American architecture. Originally from Hungary, Breuer was one of the first students at the Bauhaus before he emigrated to the USA in 1937.
These essays draw on an abundance of newlyavailable documents held in the Breuer Archive at Syracuse University, which are now accessible online.
Often seen as a pioneer of a ‘brutalist modernism’ of reinforced concrete, Marcel Breuer might best be understood through the lens of the changing institutional structures in and for which he worked. More recently, historians, architects and—with the reopening of the great megalith of his Whitney Museum as the Met Breuer in New York—a larger public are gaining new insights into the cities and large-scale buildings Breuer planned.
With essays by Lucia Allais, Barry Bergdoll, Kenny Cupers with Laura Martínez de Guereñu, Teresa Harris, John Harwood, Jonathan Massey, Guy Nordenson and Timothy Rohan, and an introduction to the Marcel Breuer Digital Archive at Syracuse University.
About the Editors
Barry Bergdoll is a professor of Art History at Columbia University. Professor Bergdoll’s broad interests centre on modern architectural history, with a particular emphasis on France and Germany since 1750.
Architect and historian Jonathan Massey is dean and a professor of architecture at the University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. He is an accomplished scholar of modern architecture and a leading authority on architecture and planning education.
About the Publisher
Lars Müller Publishers is an internationally active publishing house based in Zurich, Switzerland. It came into being in 1983 as a result of the bibliophile passion of designer Lars Müller. The house has since made a worldwide name for itself with carefully-edited and designed publications on architecture, design, photography, contemporary art and society. The publishing programmereflects Müller’s own diverse interests, documenting historical developments and contemporary phenomena by presenting compelling work in the visual arts. Lars Müller works closely with his editors and authors to produce significant publications of great independence, to the highest possible standards.
