Marcel Breuer’s Bauhaus-inspired art of space

In this video, we take a pre-Covid look at the iconic Met Breuer building – a 1966 space once operated by New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, until its pandemic-related closure in July 2020 – and its visionary creator, designer and architect Marcel Breuer.

Hungarian-born modernist Breuer, a student of the Bauhaus, is famous for his tubular steel furniture, yet his true interest lay in architecture.

At the Bauhaus – a German art school operational during 1919-33 that combined crafts and fine arts – he designed the well-known Wassily Chair and the Cesca Chair. But he also extended the sculpture vocabulary developed there to become one of the world’s most popular architects at the peak of 20th-century design.

Breuer’s architectural work includes art museums, libraries, college buildings, office buildings and residences, many executed in a Brutalist style, which emerged in Great Britain’s post-war reconstruction era.

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