Chronology
The Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, has compiled detailed biographical information and a chronology of major events in Breuer's life. Click here to view this resource.
Mapping Breuer
Marcel Breuer's architectural legacy spans over half a century and across several continents include: North America, Europe, South America, and Asia. The Mapping Marcel Breuer resource provides spatial and temporal visualization of his life's work and shows relationships among Marcel's collaborators. Click here to view this resource.
Finding Aid
The finding aid for Syracuse University's Marcel Breuer Papers encompasses material from Breuer's entire career, including post-1955 materials which have not yet been digitized. To view the finding aid, click here.
Audio Interviews
Marcel Breuer’s legacy is also reflected in a series of interviews that provide a range of perspectives on his work. To view selected interviews, click here.
Selected Bibliography
Writings by Breuer
- Address at the Dedication of the Vassar Cooperative House (October 5, 1951).
- Address upon receiving the honorary degree of Doctor in Budapest (May 11, 1970).
- "Analysis of Planning." [handwritten manuscript]
- "An Architecture of Energy." [typed manuscript - article for Architectural Record (January 1952).
- "Art Education." [handwritten manuscript]
- "Aspects of the Art of Paul Klee." Museum of Modern Art Bulletin, vol. 27, no. 4 (Summer 1950): 3-5.
- "Basic Components of Architecture" [typed manuscript]
- "Better and Smaller Lighting." [handwritten manuscript]
- "Defining Modern Architecture." [typed manuscript]
- "Direct Approach." [typed manuscript]
- Foreword to Architecture, the Design Experience, by Hugh Stubbins. New York: Wiley, 1976.
- "Form Funktion" (lecture originally delivered at the Bauhaus in 1923).
- "Furnishing and the Contemporary House." [handwritten manuscript]
- [Hans Falkner Ski Lodge] [typed manuscript - article for Architectural Record (12 Aug 1938)]
- "Horizont" (the blue horizon), n.d.
- "History of Modern Architecture." [typed manuscript]
- "Das innere des hauses" [lecture originally delivered in Delft, Holland, 1931]
- Introduction to The Work of Architects Olgyay & Olgyay. New York: Reinhold, Pub. Corp., [1952].
- "M. B. Aluminum Furniture." [typed manuscript]
- "Modern Architecture." [typed manuscript]
- "Must Architecture be Sterile?" [typed manuscript]
- "New Architecture." [typed manuscript]
- "New Architecture Through a Few Examples." [handwritten manuscript]
- "Notes on Architecture." [typed manuscript]
- "On Architecture and Material." [typed manuscript of article published in Circle, 1936].
- "On the Contrasting Aims of Architecture." [handwritten manuscript]
- "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]
- "On Selection." [typed manuscript]
- "Origin of Our Architectural Thinking." [handwritten manuscript]
- "Physical Planning." [handwritten manuscript]
- Preface to Living Architecture: Egyptian, ed. By Kenenth Martin LEake. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1964.
- "A Study for the Redevelopment of the 'New York Street Disctrict' in Boston's South End," n.d.
- "Stuyvesant Six: A Redevelopment Study." Pencil Points (June 1944).
- "System Marcel Breuer for Aluminum Furniture." [typed manuscript]
- "Systems." [handwritten manuscript]
- "Tell Me, What is Modern Architecture?" House and Garden, April 1940.
- "What Makes Architecture Modern?" [handwritten manuscript]
- "Wo stehen wir?" [lecture originally delivered in Zürich, 27 Apr 1934]
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Books 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].
- Cobbers, Arnt. Marcel Breuer, 1902-1981: Form Giver of the Twentieth Century. London: Taschen, 2007.
- 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 Gore, John Johansen, Philip Johnson, Eliot Noyes and Others. New York: W. W. Norton, 2006.
- Gatje, Robert F. Marcel Breuer: A Memoir. New York: The Monacelli Press, 2000.
- Howard, Shirley Reiff. Marcel Breuer, Concrete and the Cross. Muskegon, MI.: 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, VT.: 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.
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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: 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, Architecta." 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]
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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).