Marcel Breuer, Architect: The Career and the Buildings
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| Rating | : | 4.90 (849 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0810942658 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 395 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-08-31 |
| Language | : | English |
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Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.. From Publishers Weekly From UNESCO's Paris headquarters to the Hooper House II in Baltimore and New York's Whitney Museum, Marcel Breuer's buildings are "strongly tied to idioms of modern architecture pure forms of geometry, interlocking flat-roofed cubes and to the architectonic attributes of painting and sculpture of the modern movement." Isabelle Hyman (coauthor, Architecture: From Prehistory to Postmodernity, and professor of fine arts at New York University), presents Marcel Breuer, Architect: The Career and the Buildings, a defense of his alternately maligned and revered architecture. Beginning as a furniture designer at the Bauhaus, Breuer widened his sights to include architecture in the 1920s and by mid-career, while teaching at Harvard's Graduate School of Design, was lauded for his buildings.
A Customer said LA Architect Magazine Book Reviews. In his six-decade career as a Bauhaus teacher and furniture maker, as a collaborator with Walter Gropius in London and Cambridge, and as head of his own office in New York, Breuer deserves to be ranked with the great "LA Architect Magazine Book Reviews" according to A Customer. In his six-decade career as a Bauhaus teacher and furniture maker, as a collaborator with Walter Gropius in London and Cambridge, and as head of his own office in New York, Breuer deserves to be ranked with the great 20th-century formgivers. And yet he never did achieve the fame of Mies, though he was far more prolific and humane, or of Gropius, though he was a much better designer. If he is remembered today it is for the Whitney Museum in Manhattan, the UNESCO headquarters in Paris, and his modern houses in New England; however, as this comprehensive survey shows, there was much more-mostly forgotten and quite out of f. 0th-century formgivers. And yet he never did achieve the fame of Mies, though he was far more prolific and humane, or of Gropius, though he was a much better designer. If he is remembered today it is for the Whitney Museum in Manhattan, the UNESCO headquarters in Paris, and his modern houses in New England; however, as this comprehensive survey shows, there was much more-mostly forgotten and quite out of f. Very disappointed niksoftarg Half of this book is just text with large letters!, the other half is about his work but the information is very poor, sometimes 1 project is half a page and 1 photo with no blueprint, if you get lucky you will get 1 photo and 1 blueprint, there's a lot more information about his houses in 2G marcel breuer edition, but that is out of stock from some years now, don't buy this book if you care about the projects, if you like biographies and some info about his projects this is for you.
This is a comprehensive study of his oeuvre, looking at both Breuer's built and unbuilt work. He was a master of concrete technology and produced hundreds of buildings and designs that are distinguished by the diversity of their structure, material and form. During the course of an illustrious 50-year career that took him from the Bauhaus to New York, architect Marcel Breuer (1902-1981) generated a huge, influential and varied body of work. This text aims to make it clear why his work was so revered.. He has been referred to as "the last modernist"