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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...
...houses of the familiar "modern Colonial" type in a "Town of Tomorrow" planned to cover ten acres at the New York World's Fair; 2) photographs of a community of handsome houses built in a modern style outside Stuttgart, Germany, in 1927 by European Architects van der Rohe, Gropius, Corbusier, Oud. "Tomorrow Looking Toward Yesterday?" queried the Museum's neat display...
...decade ago, when the brand-new International Style in architecture was seriously taken up by U. S. architects, many of them were surprised to discover that Wright had been its forerunner 30 years before, that by great European architects such as J. J. P. Oud and Mies van der Rohe he was regarded as a master spirit. In 1932 Wright published his Autobiography, a book which combined magnificent self-revelation with the most stimulating discussion of architecture ever heard...
Relinquished by Gropius in 1928, the Bauhaus was directed successively by Functionalist Hannes Meyer and by Mies van der Rohe, a German architect famed for the elegance he has added to functionalism. In 1932 the school in Dessau had to be closed because an unfriendly Nazi Government would no longer support it. By that time, however, the designs of Bauhaus workmen had permeated German industry, their liberated minds had produced two sound inventions now familiar in Europe and the U. S.: indirect lighting, tubular furniture...
...Other early Internationalists: Germany's Miës van der Rohe, Holland's J. J. P. Oud, Switzerland's Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret...