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...Marcel Lajos Breuer wears 50 years of achievement as easily as one of his old tweed jackets. Indeed, he seems almost cherubic, a stocky, gentle man with a merry twinkle in his blue eyes. The more celebrated Walter Gropius was a teacher; Ludwig Mies van der Rohe built crystalline monuments to a formula of his own devising. Unlike them, Breuer has touched and warmed contemporary American life by following a simple philosophy: "Architecture is a social art. It has an obligation to people...
...Moholy-Nagy, the carriers of the Constructivist obsession with space, were the major proponents of Soviet ideas in the Bauhaus. From Russian stage design followed the Bauhausler Oskar Schlemmer, and from Tatlin's chess table and Rodchenko's functional chairs came Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona chair and Breuer's armchairs. Of course many of these developments ran parallel, and which derived from which is more a question of interaction than origination, such as Mies van der Rohe's model for a Monument to the Third International...
HARVARD UNIVERSITY Marcel Breuer, D.A., architect. Antonio Carrillo Flores, LL.D., Mexico's Secretary of Foreign Relations, former Mexican Ambassador to the U.S. Joseph Luns, LL.D., Foreign Minister of The Netherlands...
...arts, Harvard honored American composer Elliott C. Carter '30 with a Doctor of Music and architect Marcel Breuer, master of the famous Bauhaus in Dessau, Germany, with a Doctor of Arts...
Architect Marcel Breuer has designed several buildings in both Europe and America. One of the most famous is the UNESCO headquarters in Paris. From 1937 to 1942 he was a partner of the late Walter Gropius in teaching at Harvard and practice in Cambridge...