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

Key Marcel Breuer Buildings - featured:
Whitney Museum, New York, USA
UNESCO Building, Paris, France

Whitney Museum
945 Madison Avenue, Upper East Side, New York
1966
Marcel Breuer, Architect
This building contains a contemporary art collection of around 12,000 paintings: Whitney Museum ;
Marcel Breuer : Whitney Museum

Maison de L'UNESCO / UNESCO Building
Paris VIIe
1958
Marcel Breuer & Pier Luigi Nervi, Architects
The UNESCO Building Paris is by two of the most famous architects in the history of Modern Architecture
Marcel Breuer : Paris building

Another Nervi Building:
Palazzetto dello Sport, Rome 1958



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.

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

New York Building

New York Architects

Marcel Breuer - American architecture



World Architecture : e-architect - a guide to key buildings across the globe

Modern Houses

Modern Architects

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