Born 111 years ago yesterday, the late architect and furniture designer Marcel Breuer is a controversial figure in the history of modernism, credited by some with popularizing the maligned brutalist style, while also being responsible for some of the most lauded buildings and furniture of the 20th century. An apprentice of Bauhaus master Walter Gropius, the Hungarian-born Breuer emigrated to the United States in the 1940s, establishing his own practice in New York. At the time of his 1981 death, Breuer was a holder of an AIA Gold Medal and the 1968 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture. See his seminal designs, all on a map, below.
—additional research by Alexandra Danna
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