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New insights into the cities and large-scale buildings planned by a pioneer of 'Brutalist modernism'
Marcel Breuer (1902-81) is celebrated as a furniture designer, teacher and architect who changed the American house after his emigration from Hungary to the US in 1937. More recently historians, architects and--with the reopening in New York of the great megalith of his Whitney Museum as the Met Breuer--a larger public are gaining new insights into the cities and large-scale buildings Breuer planned. Often seen as a pioneer of a 'Brutalist modernism' of reinforced concrete, Breuer might best be understood through the lens of the changing institutional structures in and for which he worked, a vantage developed in the fresh approaches gathered here in essays by a group of younger scholars. These essays draw on an abundance of newly available documents held in the
Produkt Marcel Breuer: Building Global Institutions (Bergdoll Barry)(Paperback) má EAN kód 9783037785195.
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New insights into the cities and large-scale buildings planned by a pioneer of 'Brutalist modernism'Marcel Breuer (1902-81) is celebrated as a furniture designer, teacher and architect who changed the American house after his emigration from Hungary to the US in 1937. More recently historians,
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