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Marcel Breuer Biography
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1920 |
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Enrolled in Viennese Art Academy
went to Weimar to study at the "Bauhaus"
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1927 |
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Launched his "Type B3 steel Club Chair" (later renamed "Wassily")
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1925 - 1928 |
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Head of the Bauhaus furniture workshop
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1928 |
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Founded an architecture practice in Berlin but the "Bund Deutscher Architekten" (BDA: the German Architecture Association
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1937 - 1946 |
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Taught at the Harvard University School of Design
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1946 |
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Opened an architectural practice of his own, which he moved to New York in 1946
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Won the AIA’s Gold Medal
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1902 - 1981 |
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Born in Pecs, Hungary
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1951 - 56
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New York University. University Heights, New York (with H. Smith and R.F. Gatje)
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1977
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IBM Complex. Boca Raton, Florida (with R.F. Gatje)
Federal Courthouse and Office Building. Columbia, South Carolina (with H. Beckhard, David and Floyd, and J. Hemphill)
Central Library. Atlanta, Georgia (with Smith, Stevens, and Wilkinson)
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1975
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Australian Embassy. Paris (with Harry Seidler and M. Jossa)
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1970
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Cleveland Museum of Art. Ohio (with H. Smith)
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1969
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New York University Technology Building II. Bronx, New York (with H. Smith)
Armstrong Rubber Company Headquarters. West Haven, Connecticut (with R.F. Gatje)
Yale University Engineering Building. New Haven, Connecticut (with H. Smith)
Soriano House. Greenwhich, Connecticut (with T. Papachristou)
Office Building. Syracuse, New York (project: with H. Beckhard)
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1967
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St. Francis de Sales Church. Muskegon, Michigan (with H. Beckhard)
Interama. Miami, Florida (project: with H. Beckhard) Kent School Girls’ Chapel. Connecticut (project: with R.F. Gatje)
Flushing Meadow Sports Park. New York (project: with Beckhard, Tange, and Halprin)
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1966
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Whitney Museum of American Art. New York (with H. Smith)
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1965
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New England Merchant’s Bank. Boston (project: with H. Beckhard)
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1964
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Van der Wal House. Amsterdam (project: with H. Smith)
New England Merchant’s Bank. Boston (project: with H. Beckhard)
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1962
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Torin Corporation Machine Building. Torrington, Connecticut (with R.F. Gatje)
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1961
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IBM Research Center. La Gaude, Var, France (with R. F. Gatje)
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1959
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Convent of the Annuciation. Bismarck, ND (with H. Smith)
Hunter College Library. New York (with R.F. Gatje)
Hanson House. Huntington, Long Island, New York Ustinov House. Vevey, Switzerland (project with R. F. Gatje)
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1958
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Unesco Headquarters. Paris (with Pier Luigi Nervi and Bernard Zehrfuss)
United States Embassy. The Hague
Stachelin House. Feldmeilen, Switzerland (with H. Beckhard)
Van Leer Headquarters. Amstelveen, Netherlands
El Recreo Urban Centre. Caracas (project: with E. Fuenmeyer and H. Beckhard)
Resort Development Apartments. Tanaguarena, Venezuela (project: with H. Beckhard)
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1952
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Art Center, Sarah Lawrence College. Bronxville, New York
Caesar Cottage. Lakeville, Connecticut
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1951
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Breuer House III. New Canaan, Connecticut
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1948
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Breuer Cottage. Wellfleet, Massachusetts
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1947
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Breuer House II. New Canaan, Connecticut
Robinson House. Williamstown, Massachusetts
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1945
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Servicemen’s Memorial. Cambridge, Massachusetts (project with L. Andersen)
Tompkins House. Hewlett Harbor, New York
Geller House. Lawrence, Long Island, New York
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1942
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Prefabricated houses. Cambridge, Massachusetts (project)
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1940
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Chamberlin Cottage. Wayland, Massachusetts (with Walter Gropius)
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1939
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Breuer House. Lincoln, Massachusetts
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1938
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Haggerty House. Cohasset, Massachusetts (with Walter Gropius)
Wheaton College Art Center. Norton, Massachusetts (with Walter Gropius)
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1936
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Doldertal Apartments. Zurich (with A. and E. Roth) Isokon Laminated Furniture
Civic Centre of the Future. London (project: with F.R.S. Yorke)
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1932
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Harnischmacher House I. Wiesbaden, Germany
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1930
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Fuld Factory. Frankfurt (project
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1927
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Launched his "Type B3 steel Club Chair" (later renamed "Wassily")
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1924
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Prototype steel furniture and interchangeable cabinet units
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