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Marcel Lajos Breuer (/ ˈ b r ɔɪ. ər / BROY-ər; 21 May 1902 – 1 July 1981) was a Hungarian-German modernist architect and furniture designer. He moved to the United States in 1937 and became a naturalized American citizen in 1944.
The architect Marcel Breuer designed the U.S. Courthouse (foreground) and Federal Building (background). The building is a stark but sophisticated example of the Brutalist style of architecture. It exhibits many character-defining features of the style, including rough, exposed exterior concrete walls, deeply recessed windows, and a weighty ...
The Marcel Breuer House and Studio is a historic property at 634 Black Pond Road in Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Built in 1949 and enlarged in 1962 to designs by Marcel Breuer , it served as a summer retreat and experimental architecture landscape for the architect until his retirement in 1976.
[6] [17] [18] Internationally known architect Marcel Breuer submitted the building's winning design. [4] [18] Breuer became the building's lead architect, assisted by his associate Herbert Beckhard and the firm of Nolen-Swinburne. [4] [5] [6] Breuer drew on many of his previous buildings for inspiration for HUD Headquarters.
The house was designed by modernist architect Marcel Breuer in 1954 and 1955 for June Halverson Starkey (née Alworth). [1] The building's design references Breuer's hallmark bi-nuclear plan, in which sleeping and living spaces are linked through the home's entrance. [ 2 ]
Wolfson Trailer House is a 1949 house designed by the pioneering modernist Marcel Breuer in Salt Point, New York, United States.Commissioned by Breuer's friend, the artist Sydney Wolfson, it is among the most distinctive of Breuer's residential designs.
The Cesca chair (/ ˈ tʃ ɛ s k ə /) is a chair design created in 1928 by the Hungarian-American architect and designer Marcel Breuer. It consists of a tubular steel frame and a rattan seat and backing. [1] [2] [3] The design was named as a tribute to Breuer’s adopted daughter Francesca (nicknamed Cesca). [4]
Marcel Breuer. Table, Model B19, ca. 1928 Brooklyn Museum Cesca This is a chronological list of houses, commercial buildings and other works by Marcel Breuer .