John Poros

Marcel Breuer

Shaping Architecture in the Post-War Era

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book tracks development of Marcel Breuer¿s aesthetic clash between uniformity & singularity through examination of his seminal buildings. Each chapter examines a specific building and puts into context Breuer¿s work and contemporary movements of post-war era like Surrealism, Brutalism and structural expressionism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. September 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781032058153
• ISBN-10: 1032058153
• Artikelnr.: 63266085

Autorenporträt

John Poros is a professor at Mississippi State University¿s School of Architecture and was the previous director of both the Educational Design Institute and the Fred Carl Jr. Small Town Center at Mississippi State.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. Acknowledgements. Chapter 1: Breuer and the Unity of Opposites.
Chapter 2: The Shift of Le Corbusier. Chapter 3: The Starkey House: The
Parts Over the Whole. Chapter 4: The UNESCO Headquarters: The Beginning.
Chapter 5: IBM Le Gaude, A Precast Paestum. Chapter 6: The Convent of the
Annunciation Priory: Geometry, Tension, and Anxiety. Chapter 7: The Atlanta
Central Library: The End of a Long Search. Index.