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    Antonio Armesto Sol y Sombra. Marcel Breuer

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    2G irivoduccién trocsctoo, Aeon mates set y prea tur de Press en's vada de dratectr de fel grme yc wrevta 20 Caeser deo Cia. Ho ‘ganza partepaoo en dherss aponcenes 25 6 BA de aon mest 2 aie eas oan err he ‘ou ad uteaton 20 onsrecen d's Gudea Hes {ed ates on alee dhe Fes orinsed ond parte Ga Benn BA pra fr ck fretted Tater do carpineria on a Bunous de Weimar, 1923. The frre workshop the ‘Weimar Bauhaus, 1923. Quince casas americanas de Marcel Breuer (1938-1965). La refundacién del universo doméstico como propdsito experimental Fifteen American Houses by Marcel Breuer (1938-1965). The Refounding of the Domestic Universe on Experimental Grounds Antonio Armesto ou Marcel Brouer emigré a Estados Unidos en 1927, nstalin dose en Cambridge, Massachusetts, Al se asoci6 con Walter Gropus, al tiempo que ambos ejerclan como profesores en Harvard, Trabajé con Gropius hasta 1941 y abandon6 Harvard en 1946, afo en que se trasladé a Nueva York, donde permanecié hasta el inal de su vida, Desde Pécs, su cluded natal, en Hungrie, Breuer habia emprendido, alos 18 fos de |Uike to think of the most iwxurious house | have bult as an ‘experiment to find solutions applicable for general use Marcel Breuer, Sun end Shadow, p. 11 ‘Marcel Breuer emigrated tothe United Statesin 1937 and settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He associated himself with Walter Gropius there and they were both giving classes at Harvard. He worked wth Gropius until 1941 and left Harvard in 1946, the year he moved to New York, where he would remain Uuntl the end offs if. At the age of 18, Breuer would leave Pees, tis bithlace in Hungary, and begin an odyssey which would find him living in Vienna, Weimar, Pars, Dessau, Bern, Budapest, Zurich and London, before crossing the Atatic, He remained 35 years in rope and 44 in America. He bulthis Fst chair atthe Bauhaus in 1921 and he rtrd in 1976, or heath reasons, He was actve, then, for mast six decades. In the recenty founded Bauhaus in Weimar, he lived closely together with ertsts and craftsmen in an autodidactic, choral ‘atmosphere, He left the Bauhaus in Dessau in 1928, at age 26 (after 4 years as a Young Master inthe Furniture Labora tory), and opened his first ofice in Bertin. By this tne he hac already earned an extreordinary reputation as a designer of furriture and interior, Between the year he arrived in America and the 1956 publica tion of Marcel Breuer: Sun & Shadow. The Phiosophy ofan Ar chitect (a book which summarized tis architectural work and thought) ne had already attained celebrity from the many single family houses he had bul. As early as 1948 he had received recognition through a show dedicated to him at the MoMA. Inthe mid-1950s, however, he was very involved in the big international projects ofthe UNESCO Bulding in Paris (1953- 1958; the De Bijenkort department stores in Rotterdam (1953-1957); St. John’s Benedictine Abbey and University in Minnesota (1953-1961); the United States Embassy in The Hague (1954-1958); Hunter College inte Bronx (1955:1959), New York University (1956-1961), etc. These monumental Projects represent only 2 small part of his work up until his, reticement in 1976, edad, un perilo que le Bevaria a residr en Viena, Weimar, Paris, Dessau, Berin, Budapest, 2irich y Londres, antes de cruzar el Antico, En Europe permanecié 35 aos y en Amért 2 44, Constry6 su primera sila enla Bauhaus en 1921 y se retird dela protesion, por motvos de salud, en 1976. Por lo tanto, esto en activo durante casi seis décadas. En la recién fundada Bauhaus de Weimar convvé estrech- mente con artistas y artesanos, en un ambiente de auto-

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