Marcel Breuer; New Buildings and Projects
New York: Praeger Publishers, 1970. Presumed First U. S. Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Format is approximately 10.25 inches by 10.75 inches. 239, [1] pages. Illustrated DJ front. DJ has wear, tears, soiling and chips. Illustrations (some in color). Contents include Preface, Selected Quotations 1960-1970, Building and Projects 1960-1970, and Work in Retrospect 1921-1960. Tician Papachristou was born in Athens, Greece, Tician came to the U.S. in 1945. He studied architecture at Princeton University and practiced in Colorado and New York City where he was a partner of Marcel Breuer. Among his many works are award-winning houses, a new city in Egypt and his own houses in Springs, New York, Hydra, Greece, and in Sheffield. In 1954, Tician Papachristou rode on a Greyhound bus into the city that would launch his architectural career. That far-from-grand entrance led to an 11-year stay in Boulder, where Papachristou found a symbiotic relationship with the city: His distinct style flourished as he added to Boulder’s burgeoning modernist movement. In support of peace and opposition to nuclear war, he was a founding member of Architects / Designers / Planners for Social Responsibility in the U.S. and co-chair of its international organization. Marcel Lajos Breuer (21 May 1902 – 1 July 1981), was a Hungarian American modernist architect and furniture designer. He moved to the United States in 1937 and became a naturalized American citizen in 1944. 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. 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 modern furniture design and one of the most-influential exponents of the International Style. Marcel Breuer left his hometown at the age of 18 in search of artistic training and, after a short period spent at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, became one of the first and youngest students at the Bauhaus – a radical arts and crafts school that Walter Gropius had founded in Weimar just after the First World War. He was recognized by Gropius as a significant talent and was quickly put at the head of the Bauhaus carpentry shop. Gropius was to remain a lifelong mentor for a man who was 19 years his junior. His first two important institutional buildings were the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris finished in 1955 and the monastic Master Plan and Church at Saint John's Abbey in Minnesota in 1954 (again, in part, on the recommendation of Gropius, a "competitor" for the job, who told the monks they needed a younger man who could finish the job.) These commissions were a turning point in Breuer's career: a move to larger projects after years of residential commissions and the beginning of Breuer's adoption of concrete as his primary medium. Breuer was a supporter of the Council for the Advancement of the Negro in Architecture (CANA) and employed Beverly Lorraine Greene, the first African-American woman to be licensed as an architect in the United States. She is credited as draftsperson on a number of projects Breuer worked on in the 1950s including the Grosse Pointe Public Library. In 1966 Breuer completed the Whitney Museum of American Art at 945 Madison Avenue on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Breuer designed the Washington, D.C., headquarters building for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development which was completed in 1968. Condition: Very good / Good.
Keywords: Marcel Breuer, Architecture, Designer, Bauhaus, Wassily Chair, Modernist, International Style, Brutalist, Tubular-steel, Urban Planning, Public Buildings, Modular Systems, Prefabricated
ISBN: 9780500340417
[Book #85627]
Price: $175.00