Marcel Breuer
Hungarian-American architect (1902-1981)
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- Architects rank#102
- Fame54.4
- Momentum0.0
- Architects rank#102
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United StatesHe bent tubular steel into chairs so essential they're still in production a century later, then scaled that same stripped-down logic into buildings — concrete, cantilevered, unapologetic — that defined what modern architecture could look like when it stopped trying to be polite.
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Born in Hungary in 1902, Breuer trained at the Bauhaus, where he designed the Wassily Chair and the Cesca Chair in the 1920s — pieces The New York Times called among the most important chairs of the 20th century. He moved to the United States in 1937 and became a citizen in 1944. The carpentry vocabulary he'd honed in the Bauhaus workshop — cantilevered forms, industrial materials, sculptural economy — carried over into his architecture: art museums, libraries, college buildings, office towers, residences. Many landed in the Brutalist mode, raw concrete and bold volumes, including the former I…
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