Marcel Breuer

Marcel Lajos Breuer 22 May 1902 – 1 July 1981), was a Hungarian-born modernist, architect and furniture designer.

Breuer extended the sculptural vocabulary he had developed in the carpentry shop at the Bauhaus into a personal architecture that made him one of the world’s most popular architects at the peak of 20th-Century design.

Breuer left his hometown at the age of 18 in

search of artistic training and was one of

the first and youngest students at

the Bauhaus

First recognized for his invention of bicycle-

handlebar-inspired tubular steel furniture,

Breuer lived off his design fees at a time in

the late 1920s and early 1930s when the

architectural commissions he was looking

for were few and far-between.

The Robinson House

UNESCO Headquaters

Whitney Museum of American Art

IBM La Gaude

The World Heritage Centre, UNESCO

Headquarters or Maison de l'UNESCO is a

building constructed on 3 November 1958

at number 7 Place de

Fontenoy in Paris, France to serve as the

headquarters for the United Nations

Educational, Scientific and Cultural

Organization, (UNESCO). It became known

as the World Heritage Centre in 1992 and is

a cultural building that can be visited freely

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The design of the World Heritage Centre was the combined work of three architects: Bernard Zehrfuss (United States), Marcel Breuer (France), and Pier Luigi Nervi (Italy). Plans were also validated by an international committee of five architects composed of LucioCosta (Brazil), Walter Gropius (United States), Le Corbusier (France), Sven Markelius(Sweden) and Ernesto Nathan Rogers (Italy), with the collaboration of EeroSaarinen (Finland).

The main building, which houses the secretariat, consists of seven floors forming a three-pointed star. To this is added a building called the "accordion" and a cubic building, which is intended for permanent delegations and non-governmental organizations.

These buildings occupy a trapezoidal area of land measuring 30,350 square metres (326,700 sq ft), cut in thee northeast corner of the semi-circular shape of the Place de Fontenoy. It is bordered by avenues of Saxony, Segur de Suffren and Lowendal.