List of Marcel Breuer works

This is a chronological list of houses, commercial buildings and other works by Marcel Breuer.

At Bauhaus – Weimar and Dessau[edit]

1921 The African chair with Gunta Stölzl (while still a student)
1923 Furniture and built-in cabinetry for the Haus am Horn, Weimar (while still a student)
1925 First all-tubular steel chair (the Wassily)
1925 Stool / Side Table of tubular steel (leading to cantilevered chair)
1926 Gropius, Moholy-Nagy, Kandinsky, and Muche Interiors– the Bauhaus – Dessau, Germany
1927 Piscator Apartment – Berlin, Germany
1927 Weissenhof Siedlung – Gropius and Stam Apartment Interiors – Stuttgart, Germany
1928 First cantilevered steel chair (the Cesca)
1929 Model B 55 cantilevered steel chair^[1]

Independent practice – Berlin and Zurich[edit]

1931 Berlin Building Exhibition – "Haus fur ein Sportsmann" – Berlin, Germany
1932 Harnischmacher House I – Wiesbaden, Germany
— 1954 Harnischmacher House II – Wiesbaden, Germany
1932 Wohnbedarf Furniture Stores – Basel and Zurich, Switzerland – for Sigfried Giedion
1935 Doldertal Apartments – Zurich, Switzerland – with A and E Roth for Sigfried Giedion

With Isokon and in partnership with FRS Yorke – London[edit]

1935 Isokon furniture company – Plywood Tables and Stacking Chairs– London, England
— 1936 Isokon Furniture Company – Reclining Plywood Chairs– London, England
1936 Ventris Apartment in Highpoint – London, England
1936 Model for the "Civic Center of the Future" – with FRS Yorke
1936 Gane's Exhibition Pavilion – Bristol, England – with FRS Yorke
1936 Sea Lane House, East Preston, West Sussex
1938 Houses in Hampshire, Sussex, and Eton College, England – with FRS Yorke

At Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts with Gropius[edit]

1938 Gropius House – Lincoln, Massachusetts – with Walter Gropius
1938 Hagerty House – Cohasset, Massachusetts – with Walter Gropius
1939 Breuer House – Lincoln, Massachusetts – with Walter Gropius
1939 Ford House – Lincoln, Massachusetts – with Walter Gropius
1939 Frank House – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – with Walter Gropius
1939 New York World's Fair – Pennsylvania State Exhibition –– with Walter Gropius
1940 Chamberlain Cottage – Wayland, Massachusetts – with Walter Gropius^[2]
1941 Weizenblatt House – Asheville, North Carolina – with Walter Gropius
1941 Defense Housing for Aluminum Workers – New Kensington, Pennsylvania – with Walter Gropius

Independent practice while still at Harvard[edit]

1945 Project for Serviceman's Memorial – Cambridge, Massachusetts – with Lawrence S Anderson
1945 Geller House I – Lawrence, New York
— 1969 Geller House II – Lawrence, New York – with Herbert Beckhard
1946 Tompkins House – Hewlett Harbor, New York

Independent practice in New York City with associates[edit]

Hooper House II, Baltimore County, Maryland (1959)

1947 Breuer House – New Canaan I, Connecticut (cantilevered)
1951 Breuer House – New Canaan II, Connecticut (rubble stone)
1947 Mills House – New Canaan, Connecticut
1947 Ariston Club – Mar del Plata, Argentina – with Eduardo Catalano
1947 Robinson House – Williamstown, Massachusetts
1948 Kniffen House – New Canaan, Connecticut – with Eliot Noyes
1948 Scott House – Dennis, Massachusetts
1948 Thompson House – Ligonier, Pennsylvania
1949 Kepes and Breuer Cottages – Wellfleet, Massachusetts
1949 Hooper House I – Baltimore, Maryland
1949 House in the Museum Garden at Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York
1950 Tilley House – Red Bank, New Jersey – based upon the MoMA House
1950 Lauck House – Princeton, New Jersey – based upon the MoMA House
1950 Foote House – Chappaqua, New York – based upon the MoMA House
1950 Marshad House – Croton-on-Hudson, New York
1950 Wolfson Trailer House – Pleasant Valley, New York
1950 Clark House – Orange, Ct
1950 Englund House – Pleasantville, New York
1950 Hanson House – Huntington, New York
1950 Rufus Stillman House I – Litchfield, Connecticut
1950 Peter and Karen McComb House – Poughkeepsie, New York
1950 Ferry Cooperative Dormitory at Vassar College – Poughkeepsie, New York
1951 Pack House – Scarsdale, New York
1951 Witalis House – Kings Point, New York
1951 Sarah Lawrence College – Arts Center – Bronxville, New York
1951 Grosse Pointe Public Library in Grosse Pointe, Michigan
1951 Abraham & Straus – Exterior Façade – Hemptead, New York
1952 Caesar Cottage – Lakeville, Connecticut
1952 Levy House – Princeton, New Jersey
1953 Northfield Elementary School – Litchfield, Connecticut – with O’Connor & Kilham
1953 Saint John's Abbey and University – Master Plan – Collegeville, Minnesota – with Hamilton Smith
1953 Torin Corp – Manufacturing Plant –Oakville, Ontario – Canada
1953 Edgar Stillman Cottage – Wellfleet, Massachusetts
1954 Crall House - Gates Mills, Ohio
1954 Neumann House – Croton-on-Hudson
1954 Snower House – Kansas City, Kansas – with Robert Gatje
1954 Grieco House – Andover, Massachusetts
1954 O E McIntyre, Inc – Manufacturing Plant – Westbury, New York – with William Landsberg
1954 Starkey House – Duluth, Minnesota – with Herbert Beckhard and Robert Gatje
1954 Gagarin House – Litchfield, Connecticut – with Herbert Beckhard
1955 Connecticut Junior Republic – Litchfield, Connecticut – with Herbert Beckhard
1955 Saint John's Abbey – Monastery Wing – Collegeville, Minnesota – with Hamilton Smith
1956 Torin Corp – Manufacturing Plant– Van Nuys, California – with Craig Ellwood
1956 Bantam Elementary School – Bantam, Connecticut – with O’Connor & Kilham
1956 Litchfield High School (Litchfield, Connecticut) – with O’Connor & Kilham
1956 Karsten House – Owings Mill, Maryland
1957 Laaff House – Andover, Massachusetts – with Herbert Beckhard
1957 De Bijenkorf Department Store – Rotterdam, the Netherlands – with A Elzas
1957 Members' Housing at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey – with Robert Gatje
1958 UNESCO Headquarters – Paris, France – with Pier Luigi Nervi and Bernard Zehrfuss
1958 United States Embassy – The Hague, the Netherlands
1958 Van Leer Office Building – Amstelveen, the Netherlands
1958 Staehelin House – Feldmeilen, Switzerland – with Herbart Beckhard
1958 Krieger House – Bethesda, Maryland
1959 Westchester Reform Temple – Scarsdale, New York – with William Landsberg
1959 Hooper House II – Baltimore, Maryland – with Herbert Beckhard
1959 Saint John's University – St. Thomas Aquinas Hall – Collegeville, Minnesota – with Hamilton Smith
1959 Annunciation Priory – Convent – Bismarck, North Dakota – with Hamilton Smith
1960 Library and Administration Building at Hunter College (now Lehman College) – the Bronx, New York – with Robert Gatje
1960 McMullen Beach House – Mantoloking, New Jersey – with Herbert Beckhard
1960 Resort Town Flaine – Master Plan – Haute-Savoie, France – with Herbert Beckhard
1961 Saint John's Abbey – Church and Bell Banner – Collegeville, Minnesota – with Hamilton Smith
1961 New York University – Dormitory and Student Center – the Bronx, New York – with Robert Gatje (Campus of Bronx Community College after 1974)
1961 & 1970 New York University – Technology Buildings (five structures including Begrisch Hall) – with Hamilton Smith
1961 IBM La Gaude – Research Center – La Gaude, France – with Robert Gatje
1961 Kacmarcik House – St Paul, Minnesota
1963 Wise Cottage – Wellfleet, Massachusetts
1963 Torin Corp – Machine Division– Torrington, Connecticut – with Robert Gatje
1964 Torin Corp – Manufacturing Plant in Nivelles, Belgium, with Hamilton Smith
1965 Rufus Stillman House II – Litchfield, Connecticut – with Herbert Beckhard
1966 Torin Corp – Administration Building– Torrington, Connecticut – with Herbert Beckhard
1966 Torin Corp – Manufacturing Plant – Swindon, England – with Robert Gatje
1966 Alcuin Library at Saint John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota, with Hamilton Smith
1966 Saint John's University – Peter Engel Science Building – Collegeville, Minnesota – with Hamilton Smith
1967 Saint John's University – St. Patrick, St. Boniface, St. Bernard Halls – Collegeville, Minnesota – with Hamilton Smith
1968 Saint John's University – Ecumenical Institute – Collegeville, Minnesota – with Robert Gatje
1968 Annunciation Priory – Mary College – Bismarck, North Dakota – with Tician Papachristou
1968 Torin Corp – Manufacturing Plant – Rochester, Indiana – with Robert Gatje
since 1968 IBM France Extensions – La Gaude – with Robert Gatje and Mario Jossa
since 1969 Resort Town Flaine – Over fifty buildings with Robert Gatje and Mario Jossa
1971 Torin Corp – Technical Center – Torrington, Connecticut – with Herbert Beckhard
1974 Rufus Stillman House III – Litchfield, Connecticut – with Tician Papachristou

Practice in New York, with eventual partners[edit]

1963 Fairview Heights Apartments – Ithaca, New York – with Hamilton Smith
1966 Koerfer House – Moscia (Tessin), Switzerland – with Herbert Beckhard
1966 The Whitney Museum of American Art third location – New York – with Hamilton Smith
1966 St. Francis de Sales Church – Muskegon, Michigan – with Herbert Beckhard
1966 ZUP de Bayonne – Master Plan & Apartments– Bayonne, France – with Robert Gatje
1967 Laboratoires Sarget-Ambrine – Headquarters – Merignac, France – with Robert Gatje
1968 Department of HUD – Headquarters – Washington, D.C. – with Herbert Beckhard
1968 IBM – Master Plan and Manufacturing Center – Boca Raton, Florida – with Robert Gatje
since 1970 IBM Boca Extensions – with Robert Gatje
1968 Project for Grand Central Tower – New York – with Herbert Beckhard
1969 Armstrong Rubber/Pirelli Tire Building
1969 Soriano House – Greenwich, Connecticut – with Tician Papachristou
1970 University of Massachusetts – Campus Center – Amherst, Massachusetts – with Herbert Beckhard
1970 Yale University – Becton Laboratory Building – New Haven, Connecticut – with Hamilton Smith
1970 Cleveland Museum of Art – Education Wing – Cleveland, Ohio – with Hamilton Smith
1970 Armstrong Rubber Company – Headquarters – New Haven, Connecticut – with Robert Gatje
1970 Baldegg Convent – "Mother House" – Lucerne, Switzerland – with Robert Gatje
1971 Cleveland Trust Company – Headquarters – Cleveland, Ohio – with Hamilton Smith
1971 Bryn Mawr School for Girls – Lower and Elementary – Baltimore, Maryland – with Hamilton Smith
1973 Sayer House – Glanville, France – with Mario Jossa and Robert Gatje
1974 American Press Institute – Conference Center – Reston, Virginia – with Hamilton Smith
1974 SNET – Telephone Systems Building – Torrington, Connecticut – with Hamilton Smith
1975 Grand Coulee Dam – Third Power Plant – Grand Coulee, WA – with Hamilton Smith
1976 Torin Corp - Manufacturing Plant - Penrith, NSW, Aust - with Harry Seidler and Bruce Rickard
1978 Grand Coulee Dam – Visitors Arrival Center – with Hamilton Smith
1975 Mundipharma – Hqs and Mfg Bldg – Limburg, Germany – with Robert Gatje
1975 Clarksburg Harrison Public Library – Clarksburg, West Virginia – with Hamilton Smith
1976 Department of HEW – Headquarters – Washington, D.C. – with Herbert Beckhard
1977 SUNY@ Buffalo – Furnas Hall - School of Engineering and Applied Sciences – Amherst, New York – with Robert Gatje
1980 Atlanta Central Public Library – Atlanta – with Hamilton Smith

References[edit]

^ "Marcel Breuer - Rare armchair, model no. B55, 1928-1929". Phillips. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
^ "Chamberlain Cottage". Great Buildings. Retrieved September 11, 2016.

External links[edit]

Media related to Buildings by Marcel Breuer at Wikimedia Commons

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[1] "Marcel Breuer - Rare armchair, model no. B55, 1928-1929". Phillips. Retrieved 1 July 2020.

[greatbs-2] "Chamberlain Cottage". Great Buildings. Retrieved September 11, 2016.

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