The United Nations Educational Social and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) was founded on 16 November 1945. UNESCO’s mission is to contribute to the building of peace, the eradication of poverty, sustainable development and intercultural dialogue through education, the sciences, culture, communication and information. In 1953, Breuer, Bernard Zehrfuss and Pier Luigi Nervi designed the headquarters of the organization, located on the Place de Fontenoy in Paris....
Committee that oversaw the choice and arrangement of art works for UNESCO's headquarters complex. Painting and sculpture were an important component of the design, and after a somewhat contentious selection process, six artists (including Pablo Picasso and Alexander Calder) were awarded commissions.
Developer based in Newark, NJ. In 1944, the company approached Breuer about designing affordable standardized housing. It is unclear if this scheme ever moved beyond the preliminary stages.
Union for the Collection of Security Contributions and Family Allowances.
The United States Army Corps of Engineers is responsible for investigating, developing and maintaining the nation's water and related environmental resources. The Corps builds and maintains America's infrastructure and provides military facilities where service members train, work and live. They also devise hurricane and storm damage reduction infrastructure and clean sites contaminated with hazardous, toxic or radioactive waste.
Sign fabrication company that provided an estimate for the signage of the Grosse Pointe Public Library.
The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the federal government of the United States consisting of two houses: the lower house known as the House of Representatives and the upper house known as the Senate.
Established in 1905, the Forest Service is an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The Forest Service manages public lands in national forests and grasslands.
Congress passed a bill to create the Department of the Interior on March 3, 1849. The Interior Department had a wide range of responsibilities entrusted to it: the construction of the national capital's water system, the colonization of freed slaves in Haiti, exploration of western wilderness, oversight of the District of Columbia jail, regulation of territorial governments, management of hospitals and universities, management of public parks, and the basic...
At the turn of the 19th century, logging had proceeded across much of the eastern United States and demands for wood products were rising rapidly. In 1910, the Forest Products Laboratory (FPL) was established in Madison, Wisconsin, to find ways to conserve scarce timber resources. For almost 100 years, the laboratory has worked to use America's wood resources wisely and efficiently, while at the same time keeping the forests...
The United States Geological Survey was established on March 3, 1879. As the nation's largest water, earth, biological science and civilian mapping agency, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) collects, monitors, analyzes, and provides reliable scientific information to describe and understand the Earth; minimize loss of life and property from natural disasters; and manage water, biological, energy, and mineral resources.
The U.S Government Printing Office (GPO)was created by Congress in June of 1860 and began operation less than a year later in March of 1981. The GPO provides publishing and dissemination services for the official and authentic government publications to Congress, Federal agencies, Federal depository libraries, and the American public.
The United States Housing Authority was founded by the United States Housing Act of 1937. It was succeeded by the Federal Works Agency (1939-42), the Federal Public Housing Authority of the National Housing Agency (1942-47), the Public Housing Administration (1947-65) and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (1965-present). All of these agencies focused on providing affordable housing.
The United States Maritime Commission was created by the Merchant Marine Act of June 29, 1936. It supported the merchant marine by regulating U.S. ocean commerce, supervising freight and terminal facilities, and subsidizing the construction and operation of commercial ships. In 1950, the regulatory programs of the United States Maritime Commission were transferred to the Federal Maritime Board at the Department of Commerce, where they resided until President Kennedy...
Supplier of plywood doors for projects like the Breuer Cottage and the Robinson House.
The United States Postal Service is an independent agency of the United States government responsible for providing postal service in the United States. It is one of the few government agencies explicitly authorized by the United States Constitution. The USPS traces its roots to 1775 during the Second Continental Congress, where Benjamin Franklin was appointed the first postmaster general. The cabinet-level Post Office Department was created in 1792 from...
The Public Health Service Act of 1944 structured the United States Public Health Service (PHS) as the primary division of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW), which later became the United States Department of Health and Human Services. The PHS comprises all Agency Divisions of Health and Human Services and the Commissioned Corps.
Manufacturers of boilers and radiators. They supplied the boiler for the Weizenblatt House.
Manufacturer of rubber goods, including the Uskon heating system, which Breuer would be used for the House in the Museum Garden. The company did not participate in the exhibition because felt the house would not showcase their product well enough. The company did test the rubber components of Breuer's entry into MoMA's International Competition for Low-Cost Furniture.
Airplane manufacturer that expressed interest in Breuer's ideas on the use of plywood in post-war housing as part of an attempt to diversify after World War II.
Manufacturer of sewer pipes and septic tanks. They approached Breuer about including their products in the specifications for the Aluminum Terrace City defense housing project.
The University of Buenos Aires (UBA) was founded on August 12, 1821 by the initiative of Bernardino Rivadavia, Minister of Government in Buenos Aires. In 1947, Breuer was invited to lecture on housing and urban planning at the university.
Founded in the wake of the gold rush by leaders of the newly established 31st state, the University of California's flagship campus at Berkeley has become one of the preeminent universities in the world. Its was charged with providing education (both "practical" and "classical") for the state's people and gradually established a distinguished faculty (with 22 Nobel laureates to date), a stellar research library, and more than 350 academic...
The University of Houston was founded in 1927. The institution acquired land for a permanent campus in 1936, and its first building opened in 1939. The university became a state institution in 1963 and joined the newly created University of Houston System in 1977. Today, the University of Houston is a major public research and teaching institution, with nearly 300 undergraduate and graduate programs.
The University of Idaho opened its doors on Oct. 3, 1892, when it welcomed about 40 students and one professor, John Edwin Ostrander.On June 11, 1896, the university graduated its first class when four students marched across a stage to receive their diplomas. Two years later, the university awarded its first graduate degree. Over the next few years, the University of Idaho established its College of Agriculture, dedicated Ridenbaugh...
The University was founded in Detroit in 1817 as the University of Michigania. The school moved westward to Ann Arbor in 1837, when the town was only 13 years old.
The University of Minnesota was founded as a preparatory school in 1851, seven years before the territory of Minnesota became a state. Financial problems forced the school to close during the Civil War, but with the help of Minneapolis entrepreneur John Sargent Pillsbury, it reopened in1867. Known as the father of the University, Pillsbury, who was a University regent, state senator, and governor, used his influence to establish the...
North Carolina's 1776 constitution called for the creation of an institution of higher learning, but the state's General Assembly did not charter the University of North Carolina until December 1789. A site for the University was located in 1792, and the cornerstone of the University's first building was laid on October 12, 1793. In 1941, the department of art contacted Walter Gropius about displaying the Weizenblatt house in...
The University of Notre Dame was founded on November 26, 1842, when a 28-year-old French priest, Rev. Edward Sorin, and seven companions, all of them members of the recently established Congregation of Holy Cross, took possession of 524 snow-covered acres that the Bishop of Vincennes had given them in the Indiana mission fields. Father Sorin named his fledgling school in honor of Our Lady, in his native tongue, “L’Université...
The University of Southern California was founded in 1879 when Judge Robert Maclay Widney formed a board of trustees and secured a donation of 308 lots of land from three prominent members of the community. The gift provided land for a campus as well as a source of endowment, the seeds of financial support for the nascent institution.
The nation's largest and most comprehensive state university system, The State University of New York (SUNY), was founded at Potsdam, New York in 1816. Years later, the Morrill Act of 1862 led to the creation of four Ivy League land-grant SUNY colleges, which now currently exist at Cornell University. SUNY was officially established in February 1948 when New York became the 48th state, of the then 48 states, to...
A magazine about the upholstery industry aimed at manufacturers and designers. The February 1947 issue featured an article on Breuer's plywood furniture designs for the first Geller House.