Architect Marcel Breuer ppt

2.  Marcel Lajos Breuer 22 May 1902 – 1 July
1981), was a Hungarian-born modernist,
architect and furniture designer.
 Breuer extended the sculptural
vocabulary he had developed in the
carpentry shop at the Bauhaus into a
personal architecture that made him
one of the world’s most popular
architects at the peak of 20th-Century
design.

3.  Breuer left his hometown at the age of 18 in
search of artistic training and was one of
the first and youngest students at
the Bauhaus
 First recognized for his invention of bicycle-
handlebar-inspired tubular steel furniture,
Breuer lived off his design fees at a time in
the late 1920s and early 1930s when the
architectural commissions he was looking
for were few and far-between.

4.  The Robinson House
 UNESCO Headquaters
 Whitney Museum of American Art
 IBM La Gaude

8.  The World Heritage Centre, UNESCO
Headquarters or Maison de l'UNESCO is a
building constructed on 3 November 1958
at number 7 Place de
Fontenoy in Paris, France to serve as the
headquarters for the United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization, (UNESCO). It became known
as the World Heritage Centre in 1992 and is
a cultural building that can be visited freely

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10.  The design of the World Heritage Centre
was the combined work of three
architects: Bernard Zehrfuss (United
States), Marcel Breuer (France), and Pier
Luigi Nervi (Italy). Plans were also validated
by an international committee of five
architects composed of Lucio
Costa (Brazil), Walter Gropius (United
States), Le Corbusier (France), Sven
Markelius(Sweden) and Ernesto Nathan
Rogers (Italy), with the collaboration of Eero
Saarinen (Finland).

11.  The main building, which houses the
secretariat, consists of seven floors forming a
three-pointed star. To this is added a building
called the "accordion" and a cubic building,
which is intended for permanent delegations
and non-governmental organizations.
 These buildings occupy a trapezoidal area of
land measuring 30,350 square metres
(326,700 sq ft), cut in thee northeast corner of
the semi-circular shape of the Place de
Fontenoy. It is bordered by avenues of Saxony,
Segur de Suffren and Lowendal.