This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the Marcel Breuer article. This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject.

Put new text under old text. Click here to start a new topic. New to Wikipedia? Welcome! Learn to edit; get help. Assume good faith Be polite and avoid personal attacks Be welcoming to newcomers Seek dispute resolution if needed Article policies Neutral point of view No original research Verifiability

Find sources:  Google ( books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

This   level-5 vital article is rated B-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects:

Biography: Arts and Entertainment This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography, a collaborative effort to create, develop and organize Wikipedia's articles about people. All interested editors are invited to join the project and contribute to the discussion. For instructions on how to use this banner, please refer to the documentation.BiographyWikipedia:WikiProject BiographyTemplate:WikiProject Biographybiography articles This article is supported by the arts and entertainment work group (assessed as Mid-importance). Architecture Mid‑importance This article is within the scope of WikiProject Architecture, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Architecture on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.ArchitectureWikipedia:WikiProject ArchitectureTemplate:WikiProject ArchitectureArchitecture articles Mid This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale. Industrial design Mid‑importance This article is within the scope of WikiProject Industrial design, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Industrial design on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Industrial designWikipedia:WikiProject Industrial designTemplate:WikiProject Industrial designIndustrial design articles Mid This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale. This article has been automatically rated by a bot or other tool because one or more other projects use this class. Please ensure the assessment is correct before removing the |auto= parameter. Visual arts This article is within the scope of WikiProject Visual arts, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of visual arts on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Visual artsWikipedia:WikiProject Visual artsTemplate:WikiProject Visual artsvisual arts articles Archives of American Art Top‑importance This article is related to the Archives of American Art. Learn more about this collaborative project about documenting the history of American art here.Archives of American ArtWikipedia:GLAM/Archives of American ArtTemplate:WikiProject Archives of American ArtArchives of American Art-related articles Top This article has been rated as Top-importance on the importance scale. Smithsonian Institution: Archives of American Art Low‑importance This article is within the scope of Smithsonian Institution WikiProject, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of the Smithsonian Institution and related articles on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Smithsonian InstitutionWikipedia:GLAM/Smithsonian InstitutionTemplate:WikiProject Smithsonian InstitutionSmithsonian Institution-related articles Low This article has been rated as Low-importance on the importance scale. This article is supported by WikiProject Archives of American Art. Hungary High‑importance This article is within the scope of WikiProject Hungary, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Hungary on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.HungaryWikipedia:WikiProject HungaryTemplate:WikiProject HungaryHungary articles High This article has been rated as High-importance on the project's importance scale. United States: University of Massachusetts Mid‑importance This article is within the scope of WikiProject United States, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of topics relating to the United States of America on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the ongoing discussions. Template Usage Articles Requested! Become a Member Project Talk Alerts United StatesWikipedia:WikiProject United StatesTemplate:WikiProject United StatesUnited States articles Mid This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale. This article is supported by WikiProject Massachusetts - University of Massachusetts (assessed as Mid-importance).

The following references may be useful when improving this article in the future: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/22/arts/design/marcel-breuer-wellfleet-summer-house.html

The Hagerty House is attributed to Gropius, on that page. 141.149.35.69 ( talk) 04:06, 14 March 2010 (UTC) reply

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Marcel Breuer's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "Goldberger":

• From Vlastimil Koubek: Goldberger, Paul. "Washington Buildings: Low Profile and Boxlike Design." New York Times. December 29, 1975.
• From Robert C. Weaver Federal Building: Goldberger, "Marcel Breuer, 79, Dies," New York Times, July 2, 1981.

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 23:49, 19 June 2015 (UTC) reply

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified one external link on Marcel Breuer. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

• Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20140712013106/http://www.nbm.org/exhibitions-collections/exhibitions/marcel-breuer.html to http://www.nbm.org/exhibitions-collections/exhibitions/marcel-breuer.html

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{ source check}} (last update: 18 January 2022).

• If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
• If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.— InternetArchiveBot ( Report bug) 07:06, 25 December 2017 (UTC) reply

There are a lot of available photos of Bronx Community College buildings (originally Breuer dormitory, now classroom). Where does this fit in the list of works? It is currently missing unless, after being developed for these other clients it became BCC? Good Curbed article here too: Marcel Breuer's Bronx Community College Campus, a Hidden NYC Gem and good pictures here Wikimedia Commons Category Bronx Community College KevinCuddeback ( talk) 16:21, 30 June 2020 (UTC) reply

I really appreciated the Chronology of Breuer's work. I think linking to the other pages of artists he worked with on some of the homes would be beneficial.

One of the references uses the way back machine, not sure if that is an acceptable form of citation.

71.209.214.194 ( talk) 01:50, 31 January 2021 (UTC) reply

Encyclopedia articles should not have such an exhaustive list of sources, except utilized references and a slim number of 'further reading' entries and external links.

Selected bibliography

Books and pamphlets on Breuer

• Abercrombie, Stanley. Koerfer House (with Herbert Beckhard), Moscia, Tessin, Switzerland 1963-6, Stillman House III (with Tician Papachristou), Litchfield, Connecticut 1972-74. Tokyo: A.D. A. Edita Tokyo, 1977.
• Argan, Giulio Carlo. Marcel Breuer, Disegno Industriale e Architettura. Milano: Görlich, 1957.
• Armesto, Antonio, ed. Marcel Breuer: Casas Americans. Barcelona: G. Gili, 2001.
• Blake, Peter. Marcel Breuer: Architect and Designer. New York: 1949.
• ———., ed. Sun and Shadow: The Philosophy of an Architect. New York: Dodd, Mead [1955].
• Chaljub, Benedicte. Marcel Breuer à Flaine – Portrait. Le Conseil d'Architecture, d'Urbanisme et de l'Environnement de Haute-Savoie, 2014.
• Cobbers, Arnt. Marcel Breuer, 1902-1981: Form Giver of the Twentieth Century. London: Taschen, 2007.
• Crump, James, Breuer's Bohemia. New York: The Monacelli Press/Penguin Random House, forthcoming 2021. ^[1]
• Driller, Joachim. Marcel Breuer: das architektonische Frühwerk bis 1950. Ph.D. Thesis, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg i.Br., 1990.
• ———. Breuer Houses. Translated by Mark Cole and Jeremy Verrinder. London: Phaidon Press Limited, 2000.
• ———. Marcel Breuer: Die Wohnhäuser, 1923-1973. Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1998.
• Droste, Magdalena and Manfred Ludewig. Marcel Breuer Design. Köln: Benedikt Taschen, 1994.
• Earles, William D. The Harvard Five in New Canaan: Midcentury Modern Houses by Marcel Breuer, Landis Gores, John Johansen, Philip Johnson, Eliot Noyes and Others. New York: W. W. Norton, 2006.
• Galema, Wijnand and Fransje Hooimeijer. Bouwen aan diplomatie: De Amerikaanse ambassade in Den Haag Marcel Breuer, 1956 – 1959. Hague: Cultuurhistorische verkenning, 2008.
• Gatje, Robert F. Marcel Breuer: A Memoir. New York: The Monacelli Press, 2000.
• Howard, Shirley Reiff. Marcel Breuer, Concrete and the Cross. Muskegon, Michigan.: Hackley Art Museum, 1978.
• Hyman, Isabelle. Marcel Breuer, Architect. The Career and the Buildings. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2001.
• Izzo, Alberto and Camillo Gubitosi, eds. Marcel Breuer: Architettura 1921-1980. Firenze: Centro Di, 1981.
• Jones, Cranston. Buildings and Projects, 1921-1961. New York: Praeger, 1962.
• Kepes, Gyorgy, ed. The Man-Made Object. New York: G. Braziller, 1966.
• Masello, David. Architecture Without Rules: The Houses of Marcel Breuer and Herbert Beckhard. New York: W. W. Norton, 1993.
• Pearson, Christopher E. M. Designing UNESCO: Art, Architecture and International Politics at Mid-Century. Burlington, Vermont.: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2010.
• Papachristou, Tician. Marcel Breuer, New Buildings and Projects. New York: Praeger, 1970.
• Schneck, Adolf G., ed. Der Stuhl: Stuhltypen aus verschiedenen Ländern und Versuche neuzeitlicher Lösungen in Ansichten und Masszeichnungen. Stuttgart: Hoffmann, 1928.........
• Stoddard, Whitney S. Adventure in Architecture: Building the New Saint John's. New York: Longmans, Green, 1958.
• Thimmesh, Hilary. Marcel Breuer and a Committee of Twelve Plan a Church: A Monastic Memoir. Collegeville, Minnesota: Saint John's University Press, 2011.
• Young, Victoria M. Saint John's Abbey Church: Marcel Breuer and the Creation of a Modern Sacred Space. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014

Exhibition catalogues

• Breuer's Whitney: an Anniversary Exhibition. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1996.
• A Design Student's Guide to the New York World's Fair. New York: PM Magazine and Laboratory School of Industrial Design, 1939.
• Marcel Breuer: an Exhibition organized by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, [1972].
• Bergdoll, Barry and Leah Dickerson. Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2009.
• Scheffler, Renate, ed. Marcel Breuer: Ausstellung im Bauhaus-Archiv. Berlin: Bauhaus-Archiv, [1975].
• von Vegesack, Alexander and Mathias Remmele, eds. Marcel Breuer: Design and Architecture. Weil am Rhein: Vitra Design Museum, 2003.
• Wilk, Christopher. Marcel Breuer: Furniture and Interiors. London: Architectural Press, 1981.

Journal articles

• "A. & S. – Nassau Store Designed to Provide Main-Store Facilities in Outlying Area." Architectural Record (February 1951).
• "Air Line Office with a Lift." Architectural Record (April 1946).
• "Aluminum City Terrace Housing." Architectural Forum (July 1944): 65-76.
• "A Beach Club to Sell a View." Architectural Record (July 1948).
• "The Breuer House at the Museum of Modern Art New York." The Architect and Building News (20 May 1949).
• "La Case di Marcel Breuer nel Connecticut." Domus, no. 233 (1949).
• "Casa Para la Familia que Crece." Nuestra Arquitectura 21, no. 242 (September 1949).
• "Casa rustica", Domus (Sep 1949): 1-4.
• "The Case of the Aging House: How it Was Given a New Lease on Life." House and Garden (April 1951).
• "De Bijenkorf te Rotterdam." Bouwkundig Weekblad (24 April 1956).
• "Discoveries in Living." Science Illustrated (April 1942): 65-95.
• "A Dollar Buys More Room." Science Illustrated (April 1942).
• "Dormitory Interiors." Architectural Record (April 1946).
• "Elementary School: Bantam, Connecticut." Progressive Architecture (February 1957).
• "Factory by Marcel Breuer is Bright and Handsome-All Around." Architectural Forum (February 1955).
• "Fireplace: House in New York." The Architect and Building News (14 October 1949).
• "For Practice in Housekeeping." Architectural Record (June 1950).
• "Four American Houses." The Architectural Review (November 1939).
• "A Garden City of the Future." The Architects’ Journal (26 March 1936).
• "Geller House, Lawrence, Long Island." Progressive Architecture (February 1947).
• "Guest Architect in the Netherlands." Katholick Beowblad (vol. xxvi, no. 21).
• "Grand magasin à Rotterdam." [unknown publication] [French]
• "Habitations 50." L’architecture d'aujourd’hui ( July 1950): 35-48.
• "A House Fitted to the Berkshire Hills." Architectural Record (February 1949).
• "House for the Growing Family." Architectural Forum (May 1949): 94-101.
• "Houses by F.R.S. Yorke and Marcel Breuer." Architectural Review (January 1939): 29-35.
• "Marcel Breuer." Interiors (September 1977): 98-109.
• "Marcel Breuer: almacenes, en Rotterdam." Revista Informes de la construcción (April 1956).
• "Marcel Breuer Builds for Himself." Architectural Record (October 1948): 91-101.
• "Marcel Breuer Designs in Plywood." Upholstering (February 1947).
• "Marcel Breuer: Bauhaus Tradition, Brutalist Invention" The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 74, no. 1 (Summer, 2016)
• "Marcel Breuer: da Bauhaus à Casa no Jardim." Pilotis (February 1950).
• "Marcel Breuer: Teacher and Architect." House and Home (May 1952).
• "Marcel Breuer's Own House." The Architectural Review (1949).
• "Netherlands Department Store Rebuilds." Architectural Record (May 1955).
• "Noi pietra, essi legno: La casa di Marcel Breuer nel Connecticut." Domus (1949): 2-7.
• "Una Nueva Obra de Marcel Breuer." Nuestra Arquitectura 11 (November 1948). [Spanish]
• "Oeuvres Récentes de Marcel Breuer, Architecte." L’architecture d'aujord’hui (July 1946): 3-26.
• "On the Cover: The Geller House." Empire State Architect (July/August 1947).
• "Sulla Media de Sogni di un Cittadino Americano." Domus (1949).
• "Symmetrical Cantilevers on Asymmetrical Base." House and Home (January 1952): 119-124.
• "Theater Arts Center: The Way to Solve a Complex Problem is to the Make it Simple." Architectural Forum (December 1952).
• "Tomorrow's House Today." House and Garden (February 1947).
• "The Tompkins House, Hewlett Harbor, Long Island." Architectural Record (September 1947).
• "Two Modern Summer Cottages (Blueprints for Tomorrow)." House and Garden (ca. 1948): 62.
• "Wohnhaus mit aufgehängtem Balkon." Bauen + Wohnen (1949). [German]

Journal issues devoted to Breuer

• Bouwkundig Weekblad Architectura, no. 40, 5 (October 1929).
• Cobouw, no.12 (22 March 1957).
• Cobouw, no.13 (29 March 1957).
• Nuestra Arquitectura 9 (September 1947).
• Process: Architecture 32 (September 1982).

Selected writings by Breuer

• published in Circle, 1936].
• "On a Design of a Binuclear House." [typed manuscript of article published in California Arts and Architecture (Dec. 1943)]
• "On Paul Klee." [typed manuscript]
• "On Reorganization of the Bauhaus in 1923." [typed manuscript]
• Preface to Living Architecture: Egyptian, ed. By Kenenth Martin LEake. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1964.
• "Stuyvesant Six: A Redevelopment Study." Pencil Points (June 1944).
• "Tell Me, What is Modern Architecture?" House and Garden, April 1940.
• "Wo stehen wir?" [lecture originally delivered in Zürich, 27 Apr 1934

External links

• USModernist page for Marcel Breuer

From the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution:

• - The Marcel Breuer Papers Online consist of digitized primary source documents, including biographical material, correspondence, business and financial records, interviews, notes, writings, sketches, project files, exhibition files, photographs, and printed material
• - A Finding Aid to the Marcel Breuer Papers, by archivist Jean Fitzgerald, contains an excellent and extensive biography and chronology based on the primary source collection in the Archives of American Art, Washington, D.C.
• - Marcel Breuer: A Centennial Celebration is the online version of a 2002 exhibition.
• Marcel Breuer, Saint John's Abbey and University
• Marcel Breuer, 1902-1981. The Breuer Lectures Collection: An Inventory (Harvard University)
• Marcel Breuer at Saint John's: The architect used Gothic inspiration to create a Modernist campus from the Chronicle of Higher Education
• Newspaper articles and archival images from the College of Saint Benedict/Saint John's University Digital Image Library "Vivarium"
• Current works of former Breuer collaborators and associates Michele Michahelles and Mario Jossa
• Kniffin House, 1948
• Marcel Breuer: the ‘last modernist’ gets his just deserts

-- ɱ (talk) 06:47, 8 February 2022 (UTC) reply