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...BREUER is directing a rehearsal for the American Repertory Theater production of Lulu. It is less than three hours before the audience will file in to view a preview performance. Floor-standing floodlights and mike cords vie with the actors for elbow room on the thrust stage, surrounded on three sides by technical staff who follow the action below like surgeons starting down on an operation from the balcony...
...that?" asks Breuer, and a figure detaches itself from the offstage staff huddle. "Can you do that into the mike?" A few moments later, the pop of a champagne cork fills the Loeb. "Perfect-you do that into the mike at that point, and from then till the end of the act everyone should make the same noise." The rehearsal continues, punctuated with a soft, irregular popping rhythm filling...
...exterior without permission from the city's landmarks-preservation commission. Five months later Penn Central leased the airspace above the terminal to a British corporation that wanted to erect an office building on the site. Penn Central submitted to the landmarks commission two plans by Marcel Breuer. One envisioned a 55-story concrete skyscraper floating incongruously above the terminal's mansard roof. The other called for tearing down the facade of the old building and partly encasing the terminal in a 53-story glass-and-steel box. When the city rejected both designs, Penn Central went to court...
...power of the school at its early stage. Most viewers won't come to the show with a fund of Bauhaus history. Instead, they're interested because the name connotes an austere functionalism in design that has infiltrated 1970s American life everywhere from typography to the mass-produced Marcel Breuer steel tubular chair. They'll wonder how this regulated style ever evolved from these 51 varied graphics--expressionist, primitive, whimsical. realistic, neo-classical, and architectural. And the Busch-Reisinger is not helping anyone by providing enlightening text or more visual information. No linear historical perspective adds to the horizontal historical...
...total design that started in Weimar 55 years ago and was shut down by Hitler in 1933, now seems almost as remote as William Morris' workshop or Verrocchio's studio. It has become part of the "golden legend" of modernism. Except for Josef Albers and Marcel Breuer, the chief Bauhaus teachers of art, design and architecture are dead: Kandinsky, Klee, Moholy-Nagy, Gropius, Mies van der Rohe. Even the ideal that hovered above Bauhaus practice -that social conduct could be purified and made better by all-embracing design systems-now seems to have been a heroic illusion...