Archival Series

The Marcel Breuer Papers collects over sixty years of work product generated by a prolific international architectural practice spanning a large part of the twentieth century. The comprehensive collection includes architectural drawings, photographs, project files, published materials, writings, interviews and other materials from every phase of Marcel Breuer's long and distinguished career. In addition, the collection contains biographical material, material related to Breuer's teaching days at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design, and material representing his many professional endeavors including awards, exhibitions, writings on architecture and correspondence with artists, architects, editors and clients.

Using the tiles below, researchers may browse objects in the MBDA by their "archival series" - a term which describes "a group of similar records that are arranged according to a filing system and that are related as the result of being created, received, or used in the same activity."*

The finding aid for the Marcel Breuer Papers describes all the records series in more detail in its Scope and Contents of the Collection. Archival series descriptions are also provided on the landing pages associated with the browse tiles.

*From the Dictionary of Archives Terminology, see entry on "series".