Marcel Breuer
*1902 in Pes, Ungarn + 1981 in New York, USA
Architect and designer, born in Pécs, S Hungary. A student at the Bauhaus in Germany from 1920, he took charge of the furniture workshop by 1924, and designed probably the first modern tubular steel chair. In 1937 he joined Walter Gropius in the USA as associate professor of architecture at Harvard (1937-46) and in architectural practice. Working independently after 1947, he designed the majority of his architectural projects, including the UNESCO building in Paris (with Bernard Zehrfuss and Pier Luigi Nervi). A significant figure in the xModern Movementx, his classic furniture designs, in particular, represented major developments in materials and techniques. Marcel Breuer died in New York on 2nd June 1981.
