Marcel breuer architect biography
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Marcel Breuer
Hungarian-American architect and designer (1902–1981)
Marcel Lajos Breuer (BROY-ər; 21 May 1902 – 1 July 1981) was a Hungarian-German modernist architect and furniture designer.
Marcel breuer architect biography
He moved to the United States in 1937 and became a naturalized American citizen in 1944.[1]
At the Bauhaus he designed the Wassily Chair and the Cesca Chair, which The New York Times have called some of the most important chairs of the 20th century.[2] Breuer extended the sculpture vocabulary he had developed in the carpentry shop at the Bauhaus into a personal architecture that made him one of the world's most popular architects at the peak of 20th-century design.
His work includes art museums, libraries, college buildings, office buildings, and residences. Many are in a Brutalist architecture style, including the former IBM Research and Development facility which was the birthplace of the first personal computer.
He is regarded as one of the great innovators of