Marcel Breuer

Description: (Architect & Furniture Designer)

Marcel Lajos Breuer was a world famous modernist architect and designer considered as one of the most prominent proponents of International Style. This Hungary-born architect was a product of famous ‘Bauhaus’ design school in Weimar where he took training in the school’s cabinet making workshop. The ‘Haus am Horn’ exhibition of the ‘Bauhaus’ in 1923 displayed many furniture designs of this promising student including a dressing table, which was his journeyman project. In his early career he became master as well as head of the cabinet making workshop of ‘Bauhaus’ where he once learned as a pupil. His initial creations include ‘Wassily’, an all-tubular chair of steel. He taught architecture at the ‘School of Design’ of ‘Harvard University’. He later established his own firm, ‘Marcel Breuer and Associates’. His notable works include ‘Gropius House’; ‘Hagerty House’; assignments of St. John’s Abbey and University in Collegeville, Minnesota; ‘World Headquarters’ of ‘UNESCO’; ‘Department of HUD – Headquarters’ in Washington, D.C. and ‘Atlanta Central Public Library’ in Atlanta. The ‘American Institute of Architects’ awarded him ‘Gold Medal’ in 1968 during their hundredth annual convention, held at Portland, Oregon.

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Birthday May 21, 1902 (Gemini)
Alternative names Marcel Lajos Breuer, Бройер, Марсель
Died on July 1, 1981
Spouse/Ex- Constance Crocker Leighton, Marta Erps
Parents Jacques Breuer
Franciska (Kan) Breuer
Children Cesca, Tom
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