Docomomo   Liz Waytkus   Marcel Breuer’s first binuclear house, Geller I in Lawrence, New York has been demolished in the dead of night. Geller I is largely considered the project that propelled Breuer to private practice in New York and prompted the Museum of Modern Art to

Forbes   Jane Levere   The Frick Collection will launch Frick Madison, its temporary new home on Madison Avenue in Manhattan, on March 18. Visitors will be able to experience the beloved holdings of the Frick Collection, reframed in a completely new context. Frick Madison

Josean Ruiz Esquíroz   Marcel Breuer died only twenty days before the opening, in July 1981, of his retrospective exhibition at the MoMA in New York. With postmodernity in bloom, his work was lambasted for its unrepentant modernity. Neither as a student at the Bauhaus nor

María Teresa Valcarce   En 1925 Marcel Breuer se compró su primera bicicleta y enseguida intuyó las posibilidades del tubo de acero cromado para realizar muebles. Con apenas 23 años, acababa de ser contratado como Joven Maestro de Taller en la Bauhaus, recién trasladada a D

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Celebrations do not remember history; they fabricate it. Beneath the gleam of the New York exhibitions on Mies van der Rohe, the year 2001 tiptoed through the Louis Kahn centenary and mutely marked those of figures like José Luis Sert or Jean Prouvé,

María Teresa Valcarce   Las respectivas obras arquitectónicas de las que se ocupan estas dos monografías tienen más cosas en común de las que a simple vista pueda parecer. La primera y más llamativa es que, a menudo, la actividad de sus autores como arquitectos se ha visto

Barry Bergdoll Jonathan Massey   Building Global Institutions

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