Word: breuer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...newcomer to America is the great modern architect Michael Breuer, some of whose works are now on exhibition in Robinson Hall. At the age of thirty-six Breuer is now one of the foremost of Modern architects and it is from his creative genius that a new era in American architecture may spring...
Born in Hungary and educated in Germany, Breuer brings to his works an international aspect, for he has traveled and practiced in Germany, England, Spain, Switzerland, and the Mediterranean countries. Based on thoroughly modern principles of design, his works, however, do not stand out like sore thumbs upon the landscape as do so many of the buildings of his contemporaries, for he has been able to incorporate into his style vernacular and traditional details which adapt the works to the surroundings in which they are placed...
...Garden City of the Future" with terraced walls exposed to a maximum of air and sunlight is shown in an exhibit in Robinson Hall here. The work is accomplished by Marcel Breuer, young European modernist, who has just completed his first year as research associate in the Graduate School of Design...
...research professor in Harvard's department of architecture, of which Walter Gropius is chairman, Breuer is, like Gropius, a creator of the international school of architecture. And like most internationalists, he is restless, widely traveled, had roamed over Europe, settled in England, when he packed up to follow Gropius to Harvard last year. Breuer's architectural Odyssey began when he graduated from the gymnasium at Pecs, Hungary, in 1920. Then 18, the son of a middle-class doctor, he streaked for Vienna, heard about the newly established Bauhaus, moved to Germany and then Paris, where his furniture designs...
...buildings, spotted around Europe, excited critics. Henry-Russell Hitchcock called his first, in Wiesbaden, Germany, among the world's best modern houses, was as enthusiastic about two small apartment buildings in Zurich. At the Harvard exhibition, visitors were impressed most by the variety and ingenuity of Architect Breuer's projects. They range from a great "Garden City of the Future" to chairs made of plywood. They include his multiplying glass window-a group of small round windows, each curved like a camera lens, so that the same scene appears in a different focus, or from a different angle...