Competition
Industrial
1929
Frankfurt Germany
Breuer, assisted by Gustav Hassenpflug, entered a competition to design a factory building in Frankfurt for H. Fuld...
1938
Cohasset, MA USA
John Hagerty first approached Walter Gropius to build a summer house for his mother, Josephine, and his two...
Residential
1960
Dryberry Lake Island, Toronto, Ontario Canada
Five years after Breuer built a house in Duluth, Minnesota for June Starkey, her father Roy Halvorson asked...
Residential
1955
Duluth, MN USA
In the mid-1950s, Roy Halvorson, the father of Breuer's client June Halvorson Alworth (later Starkey), asked Breuer to...
Commercial
1937 - 1938
Ober-Gurgl Austria
Hans Falkner, head of the Ober-Gurgl ski school in the Austrian Tyrol, asked Breuer to design a modern...
Residential
1951
Huntington, NY USA
John Hanson admired the House in the Museum Garden and asked Breuer to design a house for him...
Furniture
Interior Design
Residential
1929
Weisbaden Germany
Breuer received this commission through his mentor, Walter Gropius. Paul Harnischmacher was the wealthy President of a...
Furniture
Interior Design
Residential
1932
Wiesbaden Germany
In 1932, Paul and Marianne Harnischmacher commissioned Breuer to design a house for them in Wiesbaden. Paul...
Residential
1953 - 1954
Wiesbaden Germany
At the close of 1953, Paul and Marianne Harnischmacher approached Breuer about building a house for them near...
Commercial
Furniture
Interior Design
1929
Mainz Germany
Paul Harnischmacher was the President of a company that manufactured shoe-cleaning products. He commissioned Breuer to design...
Educational
1969
Cambridge, MA USA
Breuer and his partner Robert Gatje based the plan of their unbuilt design for Harvard’s new Biology-Chemistry Building...
Educational
1941
Cambridge, MA USA
Breuer, assisted by eight third years students at the Graduate School of Design, proposed a redesign of Harvard...
Furniture
Interior Design
Residential
1922 - 1923
Weimar Germany
The Haus am Horn was the centerpiece of the 1923 Bauhaus exhibition. It was designed by George...
Residential
1930
Maehrisch-Ostrau Czechoslovakia
Haus M is a simple square volume whose only decoration is the fenestration pattern. The upper story...
Exhibition
Furniture
1936
London England
Maxwell Fry, Walter Gropius's partner in London, arranged the "Seven Architects Exhibition" for Heal and Son, a well-known...
Museum
1973 - 1977
Huntingon, Long Island, NY USA
Breuer and his partner Hamilton Smith designed an unbuilt extension to the Heckscher Museum in Huntington, Long Island...
Interior Design
Residential
1928 - 1929
Berlin Germany
Gottfried Heinersdoff commissioned the house from Walter Wurzbach but asked Breuer to design the interiors after Josef Albers...
Residential
1949 - 1950
Canajoharie, NY USA
Newton and Annette Herrick liked the Kniffin House so much that they commissioned a house from Breuer in...
Furniture
Interior Design
Residential
1929
Berlin Germany
In 1929, Baron Eduard von der Heydt acquired a house that had originally been designed by Karl Hoffmann...
Residential
1949
Baltimore, MD USA
In 1949, Arthur and Edith Hooper asked Breuer to remodel their traditional stone house and to add a...
Residential
1957 - 1959
Baltimore, MD USA
In the late 1950s, Breuer designed a second house in Baltimore for his longtime client Edith Ferry Hooper....
Hospital
1928 - 1929
Elberfeld Germany
Breuer and his assistant, Gustav Hassenpflug, designed a hospital complex with multiple, stepped buildings, each serving a different...
Commercial
1975
Mount Tochal, Teheran Iran
In 1975 Breuer agreed to produce a conceptual study for hotel and lift station on the south face...
Commercial
Records from 1976 show Robert Gatje and Mario Jossa discussing designs for a hotel project in Bahrain. Discussions...
Commercial
Paipa Colombia
This unattributed and undated presentation set in Spanish for a project labeled Hotel y C.I.C. was found in...
Commercial
1972 - 1974
Kabul and Bāmiān Afghanistan
In 1972 Breuer was invited to evaluate a study prepared for the World Bank on the development of...
Exhibition
Furniture
Interior Design
Residential
1931
Berlin Germany
Designed by Breuer and his assistant Gustav Hassenpflug for the Berlin Bauausstellung in 1931, the House for a...
Exhibition
Interior Design
Residential
1948 - 1949
New York, NY USA
In 1948, the Museum of Modern Art initiated a series of model post-war houses by well-known architects exhibited...
Educational
Library
1957 - 1960
Bronx, NY USA
In 1955, an administrator at Hunter College (now Lehman College) who was impressed by Breuer’s work at St....