Projects by Name

During his 1947 trip to South America, Breuer collaborated with Eduardo Catalano, Francisco Coire and other architects in the "Buenos Aires Group" on a club for dining and dancing in the beach resort of Mar del Plata. Pilotis supported two cloverleaf-shaped concrete slabs, which formed the floor and roof of the upper story and cantilevered over a core with a reinforced-concrete stair. Modular windows filled large expanses of the curved walls. Catalano oversaw the construction when Breuer returned to the United States. Some elements of the design were changed during construction, including the form and material of the staircase and the transfer of the glass-walled kitchen from the upper floor to the ground level. After a storm destroyed the sculptural, independent sign designed by Catalano, signage was applied directly to the surface of the building, much to Breuer's dismay. Curving forms were rare in Breuer's work but had already appeared in the balcony of the Macnabb House and an organically-shaped structure included in the model for the Garden City of the Future.