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...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...
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...
...gave 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...
...Milton; Gustav Burke, of Baltimore; Francis G. Collier, assistant in History, of West Somerville; Robert J. Cram, Jr., of Waban; Robert L. Cummings, Jr. '35, of Brookline; Frank S. Deland, Jr. '36, of Jamaica Plain, assistant to the director of athletics; Phillippe Dur '35, of New York; Marcel Francon, instructor in romance languages, of Cambridge; Rolline McC. Gallagher '34, of Milton; James E. Gardner, Jr. '36, of Ardsley-on-Hundson, N. Y.; Richard B. Johnson '36, of Swampscott; John Lydenberg, of Scarsdale, N. Y.; Woods McCahill '37, of Willoughby, O.; Knight W. McMahan '33, assistant in Philosophy, of Flora...