Marcel Breuer: Building Global Institutions

Furniture designer, teacher, and architect Marcel Breuer is celebrated for changing the American house after he emigrated in 1937 from the Bauhaus to Harvard and then New York. Renewed interest in Brutalist architecture, combined with the reopening of the iconic Whitney Museum as the Met Breuer, is introducing an expanded public to the buildings and urban designs that made Breuer one of the most influential modernist architects of the 1960s and 1970s. In the new essay collection Marcel Breuer: Building Global Institutions (Lars Müller, 2018), leading scholars draw on newly digitized archives to interpret the architect’s corporate headquarters, research labs, campuses, churches, housing complexes, and city plans. Together, they show us how Breuer’s heroic and complex modernism gave shape to the institutions of global postwar society.

Please join us on Monday, March 4 at Princeton School of Architecture for presentations by the editors Barry Bergdoll and Jonathan Massey, along with authors Lucia Allais and Guy Nordenson, followed by a roundtable discussion on Marcel Breuer: Building Global Institutions.