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The future of New York City’s Breuer building—an icon of Brutalist architecture and the former home of the Whitney Museum of American Art—is finally coming into focus. Sotheby’s New York today ...
Breuer is also known for designing parts of Paris's UNESCO headquarters, New York's Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Pirelli Tire Building in Connecticut. - What is brutalism?
How these menacing towers of raw concrete that just a few short years ago were considered the ugliest buildings in the world became highly covetable and intensely influential all over again.
In June 2023 Sotheby’s announced it would purchase Marcel Breuer’s former Whitney Museum of American Art building, a feat of Brutalist architecture, for $100m. Two years later, Sotheby’s ...
Fleeing the rising Nazi regime and their prosecution of “degenerate” modern art and architecture, Breuer followed the great ...
Breuer’s work was also a reference for Becker as she began to envision what the institute would look like. She thought of a synagogue in Scarsdale, N.Y. , that was shaped like a Star of David.
"The Brutalist," an epic drama loosely inspired by the life and work of architect Marcel Breuer, is one of the favorites for the Oscars. Skip to main content ...
Fleeing the rising Nazi regime and their prosecution of “degenerate” modern art and architecture, Breuer followed the great Walter Gropius, the founder of the Bauhaus and his mentor, to join ...