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   Faculty can also excite students with more modern materials, like Margaret Bourke White's cameras and photographs, Henry Miller's letters, correspondence from the Harlem Renaissance, handwritten first drafts of Joyce Carol Oates's novels, and drawings by architect Marcel Breuer.

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   Marcel Breuer Architect, Bauhaus Style Architecture
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   In 1957 Hungary born Bauhaus architect Marcel Breuer designed this Boston modern home. Embracing the principles from the Bauhaus school, Breuer incorporates a white and natural stone exterior, glass walls, an open floor plan and built-in bookcases into this work of art. This Boston contemporary home, located on a serene 2 acre site, has beautiful views throughout the interior such as a koi pond from the master bedroom or the pastoral views of Andover from the living areas. This modern home in Boston is a perfect example of the ideas originated by the Bauhaus school of which Marcel Breuer was a leading contributor as a student and teacher before he arrived in the United States to join Walter Gropius's architecture practice and teach at Harvard in 1937.
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   This Boston modern home for sale was designed by Marcel Breuer, architect.
   
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   Bauhaus Style Architecture Marcel Breuer designed this Boston modern home utilizing the principles of the Bauhaus School.
   
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   Marcel Breuer Furniture Toronto - Furniture Retail Store for Bedroom Furniture, Dining Room Furniture, Living Room Furniture, Mattreses, Lighting and Accessories in Toronto, Canada
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   Marcel Breuer
   
   Marcel Breuer (1902-1981), architect and furniture designer, was an influential modernist. One of the fathers of Modernism, Breuer showed a great interest in modular construction and simple forms.
   
   Known as Lajko, Breuer studied and taught at the Bauhaus in the 1920s, stressing the combination of art and technology, and eventually became the head of the carpentry shop there. He later practiced in Berlin, designing houses and commercial spaces, as well as a number of tubular metal furniture pieces, replicas of which are still in production today.
   
   Breuer may be best known for his design of the Wassily Chair, the first tubular bent-steel chair, designed in 1925 for Wassily Kandinsky and inspired in part by bicycle handlebars.
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   In the 1930's, due to the rise of the Nazi party in Germany, Breuer relocated to London while in London, Breuer was employed by Jack Pritchard at the Isokon company; one of the earliest introducers of modern design to the United Kingdom.
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   Breuer designed his Long Chair as well as experimenting with bent and formed plywood. Breuer eventually ended up in the United States. Breuer taught at Harvard's architecture school, working with students such as Philip Johnson and Paul Rudolph who later became well-known U.S. architects. (At one point Johnson called Breuer "a peasant Mannerist".) At the same time, Breuer worked with old friend and Bauhaus colleague Walter Gropius, also at Harvard, on the design of several houses in the Boston area. Breuer taught at Harvard's architecture school, working with students such as Philip Johnson and Paul Rudolph who later became well-known U.S. architects. (At one point Johnson called Breuer "a peasant Mannerist".) At the same time, Breuer worked with old friend and Bauhaus colleague Walter Gropius, also at Harvard, on the design of several houses in the Boston area.
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   Breuer dissolved his partnership with Gropius in May 1941 and established his own firm in New York.
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   The 1953 commission for UNESCO headquarters in Paris was a turning point for Breuer: a return to Europe, a return to larger projects after years of only residential commissions, and the beginning of Breuer's adoption of concrete as his primary medium. He became known as one of the practitioners of Brutalism, with an increasingly curvy, sculptural, personal idiom.
   
   Breuer is sometimes incorrectly credited, or blamed, for the former Pan Am Building (now the MetLife Building), perhaps the most-hated high-rise in New York City. The Pam Am was actually credited to Walter Gropius. In 1969 Breuer developed a 30-story proposed skyscraper over Grand Central Terminal, called "Grand Central Tower", which Ada Louise Huxtable called 'a gargantuan tower of aggressive vulgarity', and became a cause celebre.