Marcel Breuer - Building Global Institutions
Marcel Breuer: Building Global Institutions is a collection of essays by a group of scholars, which examine Breuer’s approach and way of working, his strategies and his signature buildings
These essays draw on an abundance of newly available documents held in the Breuer Archive at Syracuse University
Often seen as a pioneer of a “brutalist modernism” of reinforced concrete, Marcel Breuer might best be understood through the lens of the changing institutional structures in and for which he worked
More recently historians, architects, and – with the reopening of the great megalith of his Whitney Museum as the Met Breuer in New York – a larger public are gaining new insights into the cities and large-scale buildings Breuer planned
368 pages
16,5 × 24 cm
Lars Müller Publishers
2018