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Marcel Breuer: Building Global Institutions
Barry Bergdoll
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Paperback. A contemporary view of Marcel Breuer's radical architecture. Editor(s): Bergdoll, Barry; Massey, Jonathan. Num Pages: 400 pages, Approx 200 Illustrations. BIC Classification: AMB; AMD; AMG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 165. .
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Lars Muller Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
Baden, Switzerland
ISBN
9783037785195
SKU
V9783037785195
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About Barry Bergdoll
BARRY BERGDOLL is Professor of Art History and Archeology at Columbia University and Curator in the Department of Architecture and Design in the Museum of Modern Art, New York.JONATHAN MASSEY is Professor and Dean of Architecture at California College of the Arts. His current research examines the ways architecture manages our consumption of resources.
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