Sunday, 18 November 2012

Marcel Lajos Breuer


Marcel Lajos Breuer (May 21, 1902 Pécs, HungaryJuly 1, 1981 New York City), architect and furniture designer, was an influential modernist of a Jewish decent. One of the fathers of Modernism, Breuer showed a great interest in modular construction and simple forms. Marcel studied and taught at the Bauhaus in the 1920s, stressing the combination of art and technology, and eventually became the head of the school's cabinet-making shop. He later practiced in Berlin, designing houses and commercial spaces, as well as a number of tubular metal furniture pieces, replicas of which are still in production today. Perhaps the most widely-recognized of Breuer's early designs was the first bent tubular steel chair, later known as the Wassily Chair, designed in 1925 and inspired, in part, by the curved tubular steel handlebars on Breuer's Adler bicycle.

He was influent by modernism of a Jewish decent and was inspired by the curved tubular steel handlebars. I didnt enjoy studying this designer, because its not a first architect who used curve and steel shapes, it wasnt anything new to me.

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