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Key Marcel Breuer Buildings - featured Whitney Museum, 945 Madison Avenue, Upper East Side, New York, USA 1966 This building contains a contemporary art collection of around 12,000 paintings: Whitney Museum Maison de L'UNESCO / UNESCO Building, Paris VIIe, France 1958 with Pier Luigi Nervi The UNESCO Building Paris is by two of the most famous architects in the history of Modern Architecture Paris building Another Nervi Building Palazzetto dello Sport, Rome, Italy 1958 photograph © Adrian Welch Marcel Breuer Architect - Key Buildings, alphabetical: Breuer House I, Lincoln, Massachusetts, USA 1939 Breuer House II, New Canaan, Connecticut, USA 1948 Chamberlain Cottage, Wayland, Massachusetts, USA 1940 Cleveland Museum extension, Ohio, USA 1971 Frank House, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA 1939 Geller House, Lawrence, Long Island, New York, USA 1945 J. Ford House, Lincoln, Massachusetts, USA 1939 Robinson House, Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA 1947 Ski Town Flaine, Flaine, France 1960-80 St. John's Abbey, Collegeville, Minnesota, USA 1953-61 Starkey House, Duluth, Minnesota, USA 1955 More projects online soon Practice Information Marcel Breuer worked with concrete in a modern and elegant way. His works were more pure than brutal and highly creative in terms of form Marcel Lajos Breuer was born in 1902 in Pecs, Hungary Marcel Breuer Education Bauhaus, Weimar, Germany Bauhaus, Dessau, Germany Marcel Breuer Positions Bauhaus, Dessau, Germany Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA Breuer went to London in 1935 and collaborated briefly with architect Walter Gropius. He worked on an Exhibition Pavilion in Bristol and with F.R.S. Yorke (later of Yorke Rosenberg & Marshall - YRM Architects) on a Civic Centre of the Future for London. Gropius and Breuer quickly moved to America where Gropius set up TAC - The Architecture Collaborative, joined by the brilliant engineer George Patten. Marcel taught with Gropius at Harvard. He ran a studio in New York. Most of his work was in the United States of America but with some building projects in Europe, notably France. Paul Koralek worked with Marcel Breuer in New York: he later formed the architecture practice Ahrends Burton and Koralek in 1961. New York Building New York Architect American Architecture Modern Houses Modern Architects World Architecture : e-architect - key buildings across the globe Comments / photos for the Marcel Breuer Architecture page welcome: info@e-architect.co.uk Marcel Breuer Buildings - page : adrian welch / isabelle lomholt Website: www.marcelbreuer.org			Key Links: Skyscrapers New Houses Architects