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Marcel Lajos Breuer – Lajkó to his friends
– was born on 21 May 1902 in the provincial
city of Pecs, Hungary. His early study and teaching at
the Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau in the twenties
introduced the wunderkind to the older giants of the
era of whom three – Le Corbusier, Mies van der
Rohe, and Walter Gropius – were to have
life-long influence upon his professional life.
By the time he left Germany in 1935 to join Gropius in
London, Breuer was one of the best-known designers in
Europe. His reputation was based upon his invention of
tubular steel furniture, one big residence, two
apartment houses, some shop interiors and several
competition entries.
Two years later, Gropius asked him to join
Harvard’s architecture faculty and, during WWII
their partnership revolutionized American house design
while teaching a whole generation of soon-to-be famous
architects.
On his own in New York in 1946, Breuer saw a practice
that had been essentially residential finally expand
into institutional buildings with the UNESCO
Headquarters commission in Paris in 1952 and the first
of many buildings for Saint John’s Abbey in
Collegeville, MN two years later.
His New York-based firm moved through three
ever-larger offices, with a branch in his beloved
Paris to handle work in seven European countries; he
gathered five young partners in the process.
By 1968, when he won the AIA’s Gold Medal, he
could look back on such world-famous monuments as New
York’s Whitney Museum (probably the best
known), IBM’s La Gaude Laboratory (his personal
favorite), the headquarters of the Departments of HUD
and HEW in Washington DC (he finally felt American),
and Flaine (an entire ski-town in the French Alps). In
that same year, he won the first Jefferson Foundation
Medal that cited him “among all the living
architects of the world as excelling all others in the
quality of his work.”
He retired in 1976 and died on the 1st of July 1981
after a long illness.
http://www.marcelbreuer.org/Biography.html