Marcel Breuer

• Modern Snapshot: Breuer’s IBM Building in Boca

  With it snowing here in DC today, I thought a little Breuer in Boca would be nice to look at as we yearn for spring to actually start. Marcel Breuer and Robert Gatje designed IBM’s North American Research and Development facility in Boca Raton, where IBM developed the first personal computer. read more >

  March 21, 2018

• Take Action Now: Help Save Breuer’s API Building in Reston

  The Fairfax Board of Supervisors will hold a public hearing tomorrow (July 26) at 4:30 pm to determine the fate of  the American Press Institute (API) building in Reston by modern master Marcel Breuer and Hamilton P. Smith. Last month, the Fairfax County Planning Commission recommended that a developer’s read more >

  July 25, 2016

• Holiday Eye Candy: Breuer’s Lauck House in NJ – $1.8 million

  “I am as much interested in the smallest details as in the whole structure.”–Marcel Breuer
  I came across this quote the other day from Bauhaus master Breuer in a catalog for contemporary furnishings. And then I was searching for modern homes near where I grew up in New Jersey and came read more >

  November 26, 2015

• Breuer-Designed House Highlight of MoCo Modern Tour

  I am posting  a few photos for those of you who missed the Montgomery Modern Bus Tour this past Saturday. The tour was organized by the Montgomery County Planning Department’s Historic Preservation office in partnership with the American Institute of Architects Potomac Valley Chapter. As part of Docomomo’s Tour Day read more >

  October 8, 2013

• 1959 Bethesda Mid-Century Next to Breuer-Designed House – $699K

  Brigadoon Drive is a U-shaped street in Bethesda’s Bannockburn neighborhood is chok-full of mid-century modern goodness. This 1959 mid-century is on the market and just dropped from $749K t0 $699K. Feels like a home by Keyes, Lethbridge and Condon. It just happens to be next door to the read more >

  November 7, 2010

• The Architecture of Harold Esten, FAIA

  
  
  
  When I recently sat down with architect Harold Esten, I asked him why he thought mid-century modern architecture was experiencing a renaissance. He said the architecture is “good basic design” that “wears well.” Esten, who designed the 1966 house in Mohican Hills read more >

  January 28, 2010

• 1953 Flat-Roof MCM in Pikesville – $525K

  The interior stone walls in this flat-roof MCM in Pikesville remind me of another house near Baltimore: Marcel Breuer’s Hooper House II, which was recently featured in Dwell here.

  read more >

  January 2, 2009

• Can an ‘Eyesore’ Be Significant?

  Marcel Breuer’s HUD Building
  (GSA photo)
  

  Some local modern buildings from the mid-century period were trashed in the Washington Post today. The piece, “An Eyeful of Washington Eyesores,” was based on submissions by readers who nominated what they thought are the “ugliest buildings or landmarks in the D.C. area.” read more >

  December 21, 2008

• Dwell Does D.C. and Baltimore

  There’s an interesting piece about D.C. in the latest Dwell. Highlighted in its Detour column, Washington is described as “not all political wonks and Masonic conspiracies: It’s also a highly walkable city, its diagonal avenues wide open to modern design.” That’s great, but the piece, which is mainly an read more >

  November 17, 2008

• Last Week of Marcel Breuer at National Building Museum

  This is the last week to see the National Building Museum’s exhibit Marcel Breuer: Design and Architecture. The exhbit features 12 models of Breuer’s architecutre and images of the the homes, churches and other types of spaces he designed, including the Whitney Museum of American Art. The show read more >

  February 10, 2008

• Southwest D.C.: A Haven of Modernism

  As Southwest D.C. goes through another period of urban renewal with the revitalization of the Waterside Mall (the new area will be called the Waterfront) and the new baseball stadium, the area continues to represent one of the region’s largest concentration of mid-century modern dwellings, which were built read more >

  January 7, 2008

• Breuer, Saarinen and More at the National Building Musuem

  The National Building Museum will be holding major retrospectives on two of the most influential modern designers and architects of the 20th century: Marcel Breuer and Eero Saarinen. The exhibit on Breuer starts Nov. 3, while the show on Saarinen begins May 3, 2008. The museum read more >

  October 27, 2007