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MARCEL BREUER |
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 Artifice
- Great Buildings Online (buildings and short bio) Great
architectural database site; with book links. You can also search for other architects or
buildings!
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 Breuer
at Saint John's is a new Web site that promises to be a central
repository documenting Breuer's involvement in the massive project to
which Breuer contributed nine buildings. Still residing elsewhere is
the floor plan and virtual tour of Saint John's
Abbey (built in 1958-61). |
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Photo Copyright © Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution |
Marcel
Breuer - A Centennial Celebration
This Smithsonian's web site displays part of its holdings of the papers of Marcel Breuer. The papers include correspondence, interviews, writings, project files, candid photographs, financial records, and printed material documenting Breuer's career as an architect and designer. Also included is an 8-part audio interview with Breuer in MP3 format Shown here is a page of "The Marcel Breuer coloring book", [19--]. 17 p. b&w ; 35 x 23 cm. Marcel Breuer papers, 1920-1986. Archives of American Art. |
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from the Marcel Breuer papers at the Archives of American Art are photographs of Jacqueline Kennedy and Marcel Breuer touring the construction site for the Whitney Museum of American Art on October 21,
1965, a year prior to the by Breuer and Hamilton Smith designed
museum's opening. |
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Books |
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 Architecture
Without Rules : The Houses of Marcel Breuer and Herbert Beckhard (By
David Masello, 1996) -
this book has excellent reviews for being in-depth, yet highly
readable. The book is searchable and you can have a look at the index
and read excerpts at amazon.com. |
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 Marcel
Breuer: A Memoir (by
I. M. Pei, Robert F. Gatje) - The
book is searchable and you can have a look at the index and read excerpts
at amazon.com. |
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