2000 Joachim Driller MARCEL BREUER HOUSES all 98 of them BAUHAUS Modern DesignBK

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BREUER HOUSES by Joachim Driller 272 pages and 296 illustrations of the 98 houses credited to Marcel Breuer Joachim Driller: BREUER HOUSES. London: Phaidon, 2000. First Englsih language edition. Square quarto. Embossed gray cloth. 272 pp. 296 illustrations of the 98 houses credited to Marcel Breuer. Gray spine cloth uniformly sunned, otherwise a fine copy. 8.25 x 8.25 hardcover book with 272 pages and 296 illustrations of the 98 houses credited to Marcel Breuer. This monograph is a comprehensive study of Breuer's house designs from 1923 to 1973. Richly illustrated with drawings, plans and archival photography, the book provides a penetrative insight into the working methods of a key twentieth-century architectural figure. The Hungarian-born architect Marcel Breuer (1902-81) rose to prominence as a student under Walter Gropius at the Bauhaus and became head of the furniture workshop. He emigrated to the United States in 1937, where he taught at Harvard University, influencing a whole generation of practitioners. As the head of his own firm, Breuer became known for designs as diverse and powerful as the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the UNESCO headquarters in Paris and the iconic 'Wassily' chair - the first ever chair to use tubular steel, which revolutionized the furniture industry. Breuer, like many architects who work simultaneously on small- and large-scale commissions, used residential architecture as a laboratory for all of his design ideas. Not only is the quality and quantity of Breuer's residential output impressive, but when it is seen in sequence one can perceive a development of his spatial mastery and expertise. Because of their interplay of spaces and daring juxtaposition of materials, Breuer's houses have had a profound influence on residential architecture around the world and on many generations of young designers. This volume includes photographs, illustrations, and/or floor plans for the following projects: Alworth House, Duluth, Minn.; Bauhaus Masters, Bambos Row Houses; Bauhaus, Dessau; Binuclear House; Breuer House, Lincoln, Mass.; Breuer House, New Canaan, Conn.; Breuer House, Lincoln, Mass 1939; Caesar Cottage, Lakeville, Conn.; Cantilevered House, New Canaan, Conn.; Chamberlain Cottage, Wayland, Mass.; Clark House, Orange, Connecticut; Exhibition House Museum of Modern Art, 1949; Geller House, Lawrence, New York; Grieco House, Andover, Mass; Haggerty House, Cohasset, Mass.; Harnischmacher House, Wiesbaden; Hillside House; House at Angmering-on-Sea, Sussex, England; Kniffin House, New Canaan, Conn.; L. Moholy-Nagy House; Maerisch-Ostrau House; McIntyre Plant, Westbury, New York; Member Housing, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey; Neumann House, Croton on Hudson, New York; Pack House, Scarsdale, New York ; Piscator Apartment; Plas-2-Point Prefabricated House, 1942; Robinson House, Williamstown, Mass; Stillman House, Litchfield, Conn; Summer House, Wellfleet, Mass.; Thompson House, Ligonier, PA.; Thost House, Hamburg; Tompkins House, Hewlett Harbor, NY.; Weizenblatt House, Ashville, NC.; Wolfson House, Millbrook, New York and the Yankee Portable Prefabricated House, 1942, and others. 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-b... read more

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