Marcel Breuer : building global institutions /

• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Bergdoll, Barry (επιμελητής.), Massey, Jonathan (επιμελητής.)
• Μορφή: Βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Zürich : Lars Müller Publishers, [2018].
• Θέματα: Breuer, Marcel > 1902-1981; Αρχιτέκτονες > Βιογραφία > Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες Αμερικής; Μοντέρνο κίνημα (Αρχιτεκτονική) > Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες Αμερικής; Αρχιτεκτονική > Φιλοσοφία

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 th...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Introduction: Bureaucratic genius
• I. Saint John's Abbey. Marcel Breuer and the invention of heavy lightness / Barry Bergdoll
• II. UNESCO. Architecture and mediocracy at UNESCO house / Lucia Allais
• Marcel Breuer: structure and shadow / Guy Nordenson
• III. Precast panel. From garden city to concrete city: Breuer and Yorke's garden city of the future / Teresa Harris
• Atomic bauhaus: Marcel Breuer and big science / John Harwood
• IV. New York. Architectures of opportunity at Breuer's Bronx campus / Jonathan Massey
• V. France. Modernism as accomodation / Kenny Cupers with Laura Martinez de Guereñu
• Breuer's ancillary strategy: symbols, signs, and structures at the intersection of modernism and postmodernism / Timothy M. Rohan
• VI. Global Breuer. Postface: the Marcel Breuer digital archive at Syracuse University / Lucy Mulroney.