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...Gropius founded the Bauhaus in Weimar, probably the most stimulating and revolutionary design school of all time. Artists Paul Klee, Josef Albers and Wassily Kandinsky taught alongside Architects Marcel Breuer and Mies van der Rohe, among others, sharing their excitement with one another and the students. They brought together all the arts: weaving and furniture-making, as well as graphics, painting and architecture. Their work, regardless of medium, material or size, recognized the force of industrialism and the beauty of the machine. It was an entirely new way of looking at the world...
...rapidly expanding range of building materials, from glare-reducing glass and spun plastic to rust-sealing steel. Concrete used as a finished material is already giving visual variety to the city. "It is the most important change in the art of building since World War II," says Architect Marcel Breuer. "You can sculpt concrete, you can mold it, chisel it, increase the vocabulary of architectural expression...
...American Institute of Architects is presenting its Gold Medal to Marcel Breuer this week. It may be a good thing this is happening in Portland, Ore., 2,445 miles away from Manhattan, where such an award ceremony right now would be sure to bring out pickets. Why would anybody want to picket Breuer, a kindly man of 66 and a distinguished architect whose Whitney Museum is one of the finest things that any designer has done for Manhattan in years? Because last week Breuer unveiled his plans for a $100 million, 55-story office building-to be placed...
...more aware of this situation than Breuer himself, who admits that he would have refused a commission to design Pan Am. But he also recognizes economic imperatives and esthetic realities. With the Pan Am Building, the vistas were gone anyway; the railroad still needed money; and the airspace above the station was still some of the most valuable real estate in Manhattan. Said Breuer after accepting the commission: "My feeling is this space will have to be utilized sooner or later. If so, it is important that it is utilized in a good...
...Norwood, Mass. An uninhibited critic, Hudnut dismissed the Jefferson Memorial as "an egg on a pantry shelf in the midst of a geometric Sahara." His passion was for the functional line of modern architecture, a style he popularized by bringing to the U.S. such Bauhaus architects as Marcel Breuer and Walter Gropius, whom he installed as chairman of his school's architectural department...