Author: Hyman, Isabelle (and) Marcel Breuer
Title: Marcel Breuer, Achitect: The Career and the Buildings
Description: New York, Abrams, 2001. Hardcover. Gray cloth boards with a dust jacket that has the title in grey down a blue spine. Pages: (5), 6-395, (2). Profusely illustrated with black-and-white photographs. "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, and remarkably varied body of work. Among his hundreds of buildings are such architectural triumphs as the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and the UNESCO headquarters in Paris. This is the first comprehensive study of Breuer's architectural oeuvre. To write it, architectural historian Isabelle Hyman utilized for the first time extensive unpublished archival material and collected hundreds of photographs, plans, and sketches. While Breuer has been best known for his tubular steel chairs and other furniture designs, this book makes clear why he received dozens of architectural honors and awards and was called 'a monumental figure among modern architects.'" Contents are as follows: Part I.A professional life -- 1. Weimar and Dessau : The Bauhaus Years, 1920-28 -- 2. Berlin, Zürich, and Budapest : The Nomadic years, 1928-35 -- 3. London : The Emigré years, 1935-37 -- 4. Cambridge : The Harvard years, 1937-46 -- 5. New York : the early postwar yearas and the decisive decade, 1946-60 -- 6. New York : the later work, 1960-76 -- Part II. Works (built and not built) -- [1] Institutional: -- Museums -- Libraries -- Schools -- Hospitals and sanatoriums -- Religious institutions -- Conference center -- [2] Governmental and civic -- [3] Commercial and industrial: -- Office buildings -- Factories -- Laboratories and research facilities -- Stores -- Railroad station -- [4] Recreational: -- Resorts, clubs, and hotels -- Theaters -- Sports facilities -- [5] Exhibition structures -- [6] Urbanism and urban planning -- [7] Residential: -- Multiple-family Housing -- Single-family Houses. VG: Exlibrary copy. Stamp on front free end page. Stamp on back free end page. Due date card on back pasted end page. Stamp on top and bottom text blocks.

Keywords: European Architecture ; Breuer, Marcel ; ; Architects and Firms - European


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