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...Building seems to be a national passion of the U.S.," says Hungarian-born, Bauhaus-trained Architect Marcel Breuer, 54, whose precisely detailed, cleanly functional stone and wood houses have established him as one of today's top U.S. architects. And Architect Breuer has good reason to know. Famed in his youth as the designer of the first tubular steel furniture, he came to the U.S. in 1937 to teach architecture at Harvard and soon began building houses (until 1941 in partnership with Bauhaus Founder Walter Gropius) that opened new architectural frontiers...
Design for Living. When young, recently widowed June Halverson Alworth (now Mrs. Robert J. Starkey) first walked into Marcel Breuer's office more than two years ago, she knew only that she wanted a house large enough for herself and her three children that would make the best possible use of her rocky hillside site with its sweeping view of Lake Superior. The site problems were made to order for Breuer, who feels the hillside house can ideally combine both the snug, down-to-earth feeling, where the building is anchored to the upper slope, with a soaring, cantilevered...
...that the Vietnamese government would hire them-at a low salary-only if they forfeited their French citizenship. With the exodus of French firms, it became difficult for them to find any sort of work. Premier Diem signed a law requiring all Vietnamese with names like Jean. Henri or Marcel to take genuine Indo-Chinese names like Nguyen, Tran or Trinh. Forced to choose between two worlds, many fled in desperation to France, where the government has set up refugee camps and schools for them...
...Government foots the bill for an on-the-spot inspection. Administered by an advisory group of leading architects and diplomats, the program has attracted the top architectural firms in the country, produced such outstanding plans as Eero Saarinen's design for the new London embassy (TIME, March 19), Marcel Breuer's chancery at The Hague...
...picture gallery, where he helped launch the career of Salvador Dali. Switching to fashion during the Depression, Dior first made his mark as a hat designer. After World War II service as an enlisted man, he was one of Lucien Lelong's top designers when Textile Tycoon Marcel Boussac decided to back a new fashion house. Boussac...