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When amateurs of the arts think of outstanding modern architects, the names most likely to pop into their minds are Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius, Miës van der Rohe. If they know of Marcel Breuer, they usually identify him as the inventor of tubular metal furniture. In the Bauhaus in 1925. 23-year-old Marcel Breuer first designed tubular steel chairs. His designs were promptly pirated and vulgarized, and being identified as a furniture designer has injured Architect Breuer ever since. Visitors last week at Harvard's Robinson Hall, where models and photographs...
...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...
...some intimation of how many young U. S. architects now accept the credo of modernism. Of 252 designs submitted by 243 architects, all but a scant two dozen were modern in character, and the judges picked the work of two beginners. To the celebrated internationalists, Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer, they gave second prize...
...centre, pay him six per cent of the building's cost as his fee, advance him $1,000 which would be considered a cash award in case the art centre was not built. To make sure that some designs would be successful, Architects Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, William Lescaze, Richard Neutra, and the Detroit firm of Lyndon & Smith were invited, paid $400 for submitting their designs...
...DAUGHTER - Bessie Breuer - Simon & Schuster ($2.50). In Memory of Love Author Breuer wrote brashly but not brilliantly about a love affair from the male viewpoint. This time, no less candidly but with more social intent, she describes the painful affair (shared by her cynical mother) of an inhibited, literary virgin at a Florida winter resort...