Marcel Breuer

Marcel Breuer (May 21 1902 Pécs, Hungary – July 1 1981 New York City), architect and furniture designer, was an influential modernist. One of the fathers of Modernism, Breuer showed a great interest in modular construction and simple forms.

Works

Breuer designed a number of residential buildings in the United States:

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• Breuer House I, Lincoln, Massachusetts, 1939.
• J. Ford House, Lincoln, Massachusetts, 1939.
• Chamberlain Cottage, Wayland, Massachusetts, 1940.
• Geller House, Lawrence, Long Island, New York, 1945.
• Breuer House II, New Canaan, Connecticut, 1948.
• Dexter Ferry Cooperative House of Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, 1951
• Starkey House, Duluth, Minnesota, 1955.

His larger building designs include:

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• The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
• UNESCO headquarters, Paris (with Pier Luigi Nervi and Bernard Zehrfuss).
• Australian Embassy, Paris, France.
• HUD office building, Washington, D.C.
• Litchfield High School, Litchfield, Connecticut.
• Cleveland Museum of Art expansion, Cleveland, Ohio
• AT Tower, Cleveland, Ohio
• the entire ski resort town of Flaine, France, population 6000
• Saint Thomas Hall (1959); St. John's Abbey Church (1961); Alcuin Library (1964); Peter Engel Science Center (1965); Saints Bernard, Patrick and Boniface Halls (1967); the Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research (1968); and the Bush Center for the Hill Monastic Manuscript Library (1975) on the campus of St. John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota.
• IBM Campus in Boca Raton, Florida.