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Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for May 2, 2025 is: ziggurat • ZIG-uh-rat • noun A ziggurat is an ancient Mesopotamian temple consisting of a pyramidal structure built in successive stages with outside staircases and a shrine at the top. The word ziggurat is also sometimes used for a similarly shaped structure. // Ancient ziggurats were always built with a core of mud brick and an exterior covered with baked brick. They had no internal chambers and were usually square or rectangular. See the entry > Examples: "The Breuer building, the former home of the Whitney Museum on New York's Upper East Side, counts as one of the defining buildings of the brutalist movement. Completed in 1966, it was designed by Marcel Breuer, who envisioned the structure as an inverted ziggurat." — Alex Greenberger, Art in America, 14 Jan. 2025 Did you know? French professor of archaeology François Lenormant spent a great deal of time poring over ancient Assyrian texts. In those cuneiform inscriptions, he pieced together a long-forgotten language, now known as Akkadian, which proved valuable to our understanding of the ancient civilization. Through his studies, he became familiar with the Akkadian word for Mesopotamia's towering, stepped temples: ziqqurratu, which stepped into English as ziggurat.

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for May 2, 2025 is: ziggurat • ZIG-uh-rat • noun A ziggurat is an ancient Mesopotamian temple consisting of a pyramidal structure built in successive stages with outside staircases and a shrine at the top. The word ziggurat is also sometimes used for a similarly shaped structure. // Ancient ziggurats were always built with a core of mud brick and an exterior covered with baked brick. They had no internal chambers and were usually square or rectangular. See the entry > Examples: "The Breuer building, the former home of the Whitney Museum on New York's Upper East Side, counts as one of the defining buildings of the [brutalist] movement. Completed in 1966, it was designed by Marcel Breuer, who envisioned the structure as an inverted ziggurat." — Alex Greenberger, Art in America, 14 Jan. 2025 Did you know? French professor of archaeology François Lenormant spent a great deal of time poring over ancient Assyrian texts. In those cuneiform inscriptions, he pieced together a long-forgotten language, now known as Akkadian, which proved valuable to our understanding of the ancient civilization. Through his studies, he became familiar with the Akkadian word for Mesopotamia's towering, stepped temples: ziqqurratu, which stepped into English as ziggurat.

  We're celebrating May, Historic Preservation Month, with an episode on the Modern houses of the 1950s and 1960s.    Could you live in a glass house? New Canaan, Connecticut's Mid-Century Modern homes designed after the Second War are world famous. In addition to Philip Johnson's Glass House, now a museum, New Canaan has homes designed by Marcel Breuer, Eliot Noyes, Frank Lloyd Wright and Edward Durell Stone. Each one is a part of architectural history and is a masterwork of the era's most talented architects. But by the 1990s, people began to demolish these relatively small homes sited on large lots. People in New Canaan  began to band together to save these artworks-”machines for living”.  Towns across Connecticut have at least one or two good Mid-Century Modern homes worth saving and celebrating.    Host Mary Donohue discusses what a homeowners and community members can do to help save these modern homes. Her guests are Gwen North Reiss, historian and author of New Canaan Modern: A Preservation History published by the New Canaan Museum and Historical Society in 2024 and Mary Dunne, Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer for the Dept of Economic and Community Development and homeowner of an architect-designed,  Mid-Century Modern home.     For more information on New Canaan's Modern houses, order your copy of Gwen North Reiss's book New Canaan Modern: A Preservation History from the New Canaan Historical Society. It has really tremendous photography-a joy if you are a fan of this era! To buy the book, contact the New Canaan Historical Society at info@nchistory.org   To learn more about Modernism in New Canaan, go to: https://nchistory.org/modern-new-canaan/   To visit the Glass House, go to: https://theglasshouse.org/    You can find the link to the New Canaan Modern House Survey on the website of the Glass House Museum here: https://theglasshouse.org/learn/modern-homes-survey/   To read more about Mary Dunne's mid-century modern home and furniture designer Jens Risom, go to:  https://www.ctexplored.org/the-answer-is-risom/   https://www.ctexplored.org/the-modern-style-in-manchester/   photo: Michael Biondo   ---------------------------------------------------------------- Visit Connecticut's four state museums operated by the State Historic Preservation Office including the Eric Sloane Museum in Kent, with the artist's studio; the Henry Whitfield House in Guilford, the state's oldest house built in 1639, , Old New-Gate Prison & Copper Mine in East Granby, the Nation's first chartered copper mine and state prison; and the Prudence Crandall Museum in Canterbury, the first school for young black women.  Learn more here: https://portal.ct.gov/decd/services/historic-preservation/state-museums   Like Grating the Nutmeg? Want to support it? Make a donation! 100% of the funds from your donation go directly to the production and promotion of the show. Go to ctexplored.org to send your donation now. Get your copy of Connecticut Explored magazine, in print and digital editions now so you don't miss the Summer issue! Each issue offers a photo essay, feature-length stories you can sink your teeth into, and shorter stories you can breeze through—plus lots of beautiful, large historic images. We include oral histories, stunning museum objects, must-see destinations, and more. From Colonial history to pop-culture, you'll find it all in this magazine. Subscribe to get your copy today in your mailbox or your inbox at ctexplored.org This episode of Grating the Nutmeg was produced by Mary Donohue and engineered by Patrick O'Sullivan at www.highwattagemedia.com/   Follow GTN on our socials-Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and BlueSky.   Follow executive producer Mary Donohue on Facebook and Instagram at WeHa Sidewalk Historian. Join us in two weeks for our next episode of Grating the Nutmeg, the podcast of Connecticut history. Thank you for listening!

In our latest episode, we discuss Brady Corbet's film The Brutalist, a story loosely based on the life of architect Marcel Breuer. 

Descubre la Escuela Bauhaus: El Movimiento que Redefinió el Diseño y la Arquitectura" La Bauhaus es una de las instituciones más influyentes de la historia del diseño moderno, y en este vídeo te llevamos a un recorrido fascinante sobre su origen, su impacto global y cómo sus principios revolucionaron el arte, la arquitectura, la moda y mucho más. ¿Qué hizo tan especial a la Bauhaus? ¿Cómo transformó el concepto de funcionalidad y estética en el siglo XX? Hablaremos sobre los grandes maestros de la Bauhaus como Walter Gropius, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe y Marcel Breuer, y cómo sus innovaciones siguen influyendo en el diseño contemporáneo. ¡No te pierdas este análisis profundo sobre una de las escuelas de arte y diseño más importantes de todos los tiempos!

Nach 1933 ging für viele Bauhäusler das Leben in den USA weiter. Marcel Breuer, in Deutschland vor allem als Möbelbauer bekannt, fand auf Cape Cod sein Paradies. Jetzt will sein Sohn das Sommerhaus verkaufen und gleichzeitig erhalten. Geht beides? Nora Sobich www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de, Die Reportage

Bauhaus is one of the most influential art and design movements of these days. Walter Gropius, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and Marcel Breuer are all prominent and common names – but what about Marianne Brandt, Lilly Reich, Gunta Stölzl, and many more? These women are mostly remembered as wives and assistants but not for their significant contributions to the Bauhaus movement. This episode by Lenja Charlotte Burmeister (@lenjacharlotte) will dive into the role of women at the Bauhaus school, especially highlighting their significant influence and position at the school and outlining the most important principles, beliefs, and history of the Bauhaus school.  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/maastricht-diplomat/message

Palm Springs and Los Angeles have thousands of Modernist houses, but there are many towns with their own midcentury architectural heritage. From Modernism Week 2024, we talk with David Coffey about Bakersfield CA; Palm Desert CA native and architectural researcher Luke Leuschner, then Peter McMahon with Cape Cod Modern House Trust, for an update on saving Marcel Breuer's Cape Cod house.

Happy 2024!  We open up the new year with another great episode in our continuing series Children of Genius.  Francesca Breuer Wallace gives her first interview - ever - on her father Marcel Breuer; and later it's the grandson of Aino and Alvar Aalto, Heikki Aalto-Alanen, with a new book on his grandparents. 

Be careful about giving a coffee table book to your architecture-lovin' spouse for Christmas, because one day, you might have a new Modernist house by a famous architect - plus a railroad - on your property.  Joining us is Seattle brand designer Lou Maxon and his long strange journey to build a Tom Kundig house with a unique Kundig gizmo on rails. Later on, returning podcast guest Peter McMahon of the Cape Cod Modern House Trust shares his group's wildly successful preservation of Modernist cottages, including their new campaign to buy and restore the Marcel Breuer house in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, largely untouched since Breuer died over 40 years ago.  

Bonjour à tous et à toutes, aujourd'hui on parle de la naissance du Design avec notamment l'école du Bauhaus et de la Wassily Chair ou chaise B3 de Marcel BreuerCet épisode a été co-écrit avec Elisa Cardon et Eva VernierMes réseaux : Aphrodisart_Vocabulaire : Marcel Breuer (1902-1981)Wassily chair - Chaise B3Bauhaus Walter GropiusWassily Kandinsky (1866–1944)Paul Klee (1879–1940)Adolf Meyer (1881–1929)Johannes Itten (1888–1967)Oskar Schlemmer (1888–1943)Richard DöckerWilhelm MichelLouis Herman De Koninck avec sa chaise tubulaire pour la villa Canneel en 1931, mais encore Alberto Meda avec HighFrame n°417, Alias, 1991« Red and Blue Chair » de Gerrit Rietveld BIBLIOGRAPHIE❖ARNT Cobbers, Brever, TASCHEN, Berlin, 2007❖Beaux-Arts edition, Marcel Breuer (1902-1981) Design et architecture, Beaux-arts edition, Paris, février 2013❖BYARS Mel. Design encyclopedia : 1880 to the present, 1994, Munich. 612 pages❖BROHAN Torsten, BERG Thomas, Design Classics 1880 – 1930, TASCHEN, 2001, pages 81 à 100❖FIELL Peter et Charlotte, MODERN CHAIRS, TASCHEN, PARIS, 1994,❖HODGESusie.Pourquoiest-ceunchef d'œuvre?80objetsdesignexpliqués,Eyrolles,2014.pages128-129❖JACQUET Hugues, Savoir et faire le Métal, Collection Nature, Paris, 2018, pages 355 à 362❖KIELLBERG Pierre, Le mobilier du XXe siècle, dictionnaire des créateurs, les Editions de l'Amateur, Paris, 2000, pages 19 à 26 – 71 – 98 à 101❖McCARTER Robert. Breuer, Vienne : Phaidon, 2016. pages 63-73❖MILLER Judith, Le grand livre du design et des arts décoratifs, Paris, Eyrolles, 2010❖VON VEGESACK Alexander, Remmele Mathias. Marcel Breuer Design and architecture, 2003, Weil am Rhein : Vitra Design Museum. pages 56-65.❖WILK Christopher. Marcel Breuer : Furniture and Interiors, 1981, New York : Museum of Modern Art. pages 37-40 Webographie ❖Article in. Revue de l'enseignement des langues vivantes, 1 janvier 1931, page 40, Retronews (en ligne), consulté le 27 mars 2022. Lien Internet : https://www.retronews.fr/journal/revue-de-l-enseignement-des-langues- vivantes/1-janvier- 1931/2385/4881574/40?from=%2Fsearch%23allTerms%3D%2522marcel%2520breuer%2522%26sort%3Ds core%26publishedBounds%3Dfrom%26indexedBounds%3Dfrom%26page%3D1%26searchIn%3Dall%26total %3D43&index=1❖CHASLIN François, Marcel Breuer ( 1902-1981), Universalis, en ligne https://www.universalis.fr/encyclopedie/marcel-breuer/❖France culture, La chaise Wassily, histoire d'une icône du design, consulté le 14/03/2022, https://youtu.be/mdOva1wB0do❖LALLEMENT Michel, « FONCTIONNALISME », Encyclopædia Universalis [en ligne], consulté le 26 mars 2022. URL : http://www.universalis-edu.com.accesdistant.sorbonne- universite.fr/encyclopedie/fonctionnalisme/❖LEMOINE Serge, « BAUHAUS », Encyclopædia Universalis [en ligne], consulté le 20 mars 2022. URL : http://www.universalis-edu.com.accesdistant.sorbonne-universite.fr/encyclopedie/bauhaus/❖Magazine en ligne « Du Grand Art », 2022, consulté le 14/03/2022, https://www.du-grand-art.fr/arts- decoratifs/moderne/bauhaus/artistes/marcel-breuer/❖Site officiel du centre Pompidou, consulté le 14/03/2022, https://www.centrepompidou.fr/fr/ressources/oeuvre/cdzKkgA mardi prochain - Aphrodisart  Hébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

Un nouvel épisode passionnant de notre série consacrée aux copies des pièces iconique du design d'intérieur ! Aujourd'hui, plongeons-nous dans l'un des chefs-d'œuvre emblématiques du XXe siècle : le fauteuil Wassily de Marcel Breuer. Ce fauteuil révolutionnaire, également connu sous le nom de modèle B3, a été conçu par l'architecte et designer hongrois Marcel Breuer dans les années 1920. Inspiré par les principes du mouvement Bauhaus, Breuer a créé une pièce de mobilier qui incarne à la fois la fonctionnalité et l'esthétique moderniste ! Dans cet épisode, je vous donne la recette avec toutes les astuces pour distinguer un vrai fauteuil Wassily d'une contrefaçon. Nous explorerons également les origines fascinantes de cette assise et la vision audacieuse de Breuer. Découvrez comment il a repensé la conception du mobilier pour créer une structure aussi légère qu'élégante

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In this podcast we discuss visibility, haunting and fascism with art historian and theorist Elizabeth Otto. Otto's book Haunted Bauhaus explores the marginalized histories of occult spirituality, gender fluidity and queer identity within the Bauhaus; offering fresh insight into one of the most canonized periods of European art history. The Bauhaus (1919–1933) is widely regarded as the twentieth century's most influential art, architecture, and design school, celebrated as the archetypal movement of rational modernism and famous for bringing functional and elegant design to the masses. In Haunted Bauhaus, art historian Elizabeth Otto liberates Bauhaus history, uncovering a movement that is vastly more diverse and paradoxical than previously assumed. Otto traces the surprising trajectories of the school's engagement with occult spirituality, gender fluidity, queer identities, and radical politics. The Bauhaus, she shows us, is haunted by these untold stories. The Bauhaus is most often associated with a handful of famous artists, architects, and designers—notably Paul Klee, Walter Gropius, László Moholy-Nagy, and Marcel Breuer. Otto enlarges this narrow focus by reclaiming the historically marginalized lives and accomplishments of many of the more than 1,200 Bauhaus teachers and students (the so-called Bauhäusler), arguing that they are central to our understanding of this movement. Otto reveals Bauhaus members' spiritual experimentation, expressed in double-exposed “spirit photographs” and enacted in breathing exercises and nude gymnastics; their explorations of the dark sides of masculinity and emerging female identities; the “queer hauntology” of certain Bauhaus works; and the role of radical politics on both the left and the right—during the school's Communist period, when some of the Bauhäusler put their skills to work for the revolution, and, later, into the service of the Nazis. With Haunted Bauhaus, Otto not only expands our knowledge of a foundational movement of modern art, architecture, and design, she also provides the first sustained investigation of the irrational and the unconventional currents swirling behind the Bauhaus's signature sleek surfaces and austere structures. This is a fresh, wild ride through the Bauhaus you thought you knew. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/intellectual-history

In this podcast we discuss visibility, haunting and fascism with art historian and theorist Elizabeth Otto. Otto's book Haunted Bauhaus explores the marginalized histories of occult spirituality, gender fluidity and queer identity within the Bauhaus; offering fresh insight into one of the most canonized periods of European art history. The Bauhaus (1919–1933) is widely regarded as the twentieth century's most influential art, architecture, and design school, celebrated as the archetypal movement of rational modernism and famous for bringing functional and elegant design to the masses. In Haunted Bauhaus, art historian Elizabeth Otto liberates Bauhaus history, uncovering a movement that is vastly more diverse and paradoxical than previously assumed. Otto traces the surprising trajectories of the school's engagement with occult spirituality, gender fluidity, queer identities, and radical politics. The Bauhaus, she shows us, is haunted by these untold stories. The Bauhaus is most often associated with a handful of famous artists, architects, and designers—notably Paul Klee, Walter Gropius, László Moholy-Nagy, and Marcel Breuer. Otto enlarges this narrow focus by reclaiming the historically marginalized lives and accomplishments of many of the more than 1,200 Bauhaus teachers and students (the so-called Bauhäusler), arguing that they are central to our understanding of this movement. Otto reveals Bauhaus members' spiritual experimentation, expressed in double-exposed “spirit photographs” and enacted in breathing exercises and nude gymnastics; their explorations of the dark sides of masculinity and emerging female identities; the “queer hauntology” of certain Bauhaus works; and the role of radical politics on both the left and the right—during the school's Communist period, when some of the Bauhäusler put their skills to work for the revolution, and, later, into the service of the Nazis. With Haunted Bauhaus, Otto not only expands our knowledge of a foundational movement of modern art, architecture, and design, she also provides the first sustained investigation of the irrational and the unconventional currents swirling behind the Bauhaus's signature sleek surfaces and austere structures. This is a fresh, wild ride through the Bauhaus you thought you knew. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/art

In this podcast we discuss visibility, haunting and fascism with art historian and theorist Elizabeth Otto. Otto's book Haunted Bauhaus explores the marginalized histories of occult spirituality, gender fluidity and queer identity within the Bauhaus; offering fresh insight into one of the most canonized periods of European art history. The Bauhaus (1919–1933) is widely regarded as the twentieth century's most influential art, architecture, and design school, celebrated as the archetypal movement of rational modernism and famous for bringing functional and elegant design to the masses. In Haunted Bauhaus, art historian Elizabeth Otto liberates Bauhaus history, uncovering a movement that is vastly more diverse and paradoxical than previously assumed. Otto traces the surprising trajectories of the school's engagement with occult spirituality, gender fluidity, queer identities, and radical politics. The Bauhaus, she shows us, is haunted by these untold stories. The Bauhaus is most often associated with a handful of famous artists, architects, and designers—notably Paul Klee, Walter Gropius, László Moholy-Nagy, and Marcel Breuer. Otto enlarges this narrow focus by reclaiming the historically marginalized lives and accomplishments of many of the more than 1,200 Bauhaus teachers and students (the so-called Bauhäusler), arguing that they are central to our understanding of this movement. Otto reveals Bauhaus members' spiritual experimentation, expressed in double-exposed “spirit photographs” and enacted in breathing exercises and nude gymnastics; their explorations of the dark sides of masculinity and emerging female identities; the “queer hauntology” of certain Bauhaus works; and the role of radical politics on both the left and the right—during the school's Communist period, when some of the Bauhäusler put their skills to work for the revolution, and, later, into the service of the Nazis. With Haunted Bauhaus, Otto not only expands our knowledge of a foundational movement of modern art, architecture, and design, she also provides the first sustained investigation of the irrational and the unconventional currents swirling behind the Bauhaus's signature sleek surfaces and austere structures. This is a fresh, wild ride through the Bauhaus you thought you knew. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/gender-studies

In this podcast we discuss visibility, haunting and fascism with art historian and theorist Elizabeth Otto. Otto's book Haunted Bauhaus explores the marginalized histories of occult spirituality, gender fluidity and queer identity within the Bauhaus; offering fresh insight into one of the most canonized periods of European art history. The Bauhaus (1919–1933) is widely regarded as the twentieth century's most influential art, architecture, and design school, celebrated as the archetypal movement of rational modernism and famous for bringing functional and elegant design to the masses. In Haunted Bauhaus, art historian Elizabeth Otto liberates Bauhaus history, uncovering a movement that is vastly more diverse and paradoxical than previously assumed. Otto traces the surprising trajectories of the school's engagement with occult spirituality, gender fluidity, queer identities, and radical politics. The Bauhaus, she shows us, is haunted by these untold stories. The Bauhaus is most often associated with a handful of famous artists, architects, and designers—notably Paul Klee, Walter Gropius, László Moholy-Nagy, and Marcel Breuer. Otto enlarges this narrow focus by reclaiming the historically marginalized lives and accomplishments of many of the more than 1,200 Bauhaus teachers and students (the so-called Bauhäusler), arguing that they are central to our understanding of this movement. Otto reveals Bauhaus members' spiritual experimentation, expressed in double-exposed “spirit photographs” and enacted in breathing exercises and nude gymnastics; their explorations of the dark sides of masculinity and emerging female identities; the “queer hauntology” of certain Bauhaus works; and the role of radical politics on both the left and the right—during the school's Communist period, when some of the Bauhäusler put their skills to work for the revolution, and, later, into the service of the Nazis. With Haunted Bauhaus, Otto not only expands our knowledge of a foundational movement of modern art, architecture, and design, she also provides the first sustained investigation of the irrational and the unconventional currents swirling behind the Bauhaus's signature sleek surfaces and austere structures. This is a fresh, wild ride through the Bauhaus you thought you knew. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/german-studies

In this podcast we discuss visibility, haunting and fascism with art historian and theorist Elizabeth Otto. Otto's book Haunted Bauhaus explores the marginalized histories of occult spirituality, gender fluidity and queer identity within the Bauhaus; offering fresh insight into one of the most canonized periods of European art history. The Bauhaus (1919–1933) is widely regarded as the twentieth century's most influential art, architecture, and design school, celebrated as the archetypal movement of rational modernism and famous for bringing functional and elegant design to the masses. In Haunted Bauhaus, art historian Elizabeth Otto liberates Bauhaus history, uncovering a movement that is vastly more diverse and paradoxical than previously assumed. Otto traces the surprising trajectories of the school's engagement with occult spirituality, gender fluidity, queer identities, and radical politics. The Bauhaus, she shows us, is haunted by these untold stories. The Bauhaus is most often associated with a handful of famous artists, architects, and designers—notably Paul Klee, Walter Gropius, László Moholy-Nagy, and Marcel Breuer. Otto enlarges this narrow focus by reclaiming the historically marginalized lives and accomplishments of many of the more than 1,200 Bauhaus teachers and students (the so-called Bauhäusler), arguing that they are central to our understanding of this movement. Otto reveals Bauhaus members' spiritual experimentation, expressed in double-exposed “spirit photographs” and enacted in breathing exercises and nude gymnastics; their explorations of the dark sides of masculinity and emerging female identities; the “queer hauntology” of certain Bauhaus works; and the role of radical politics on both the left and the right—during the school's Communist period, when some of the Bauhäusler put their skills to work for the revolution, and, later, into the service of the Nazis. With Haunted Bauhaus, Otto not only expands our knowledge of a foundational movement of modern art, architecture, and design, she also provides the first sustained investigation of the irrational and the unconventional currents swirling behind the Bauhaus's signature sleek surfaces and austere structures. This is a fresh, wild ride through the Bauhaus you thought you knew. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/lgbtq-studies

You just can't underestimate the satisfaction of a great office chair.  We spend most of our waking lives at work, often sitting, so comfort is important.  And for many, the location of work has changed.  Accelerated by the pandemic, your workplace is as likely to be a kitchen or den as it is a floor of offices. The KNOLL company had some of the most celebrated chairs in the world including Eero Saarinen's womb and tulip chairs, the Barcelona chair by Mies Van der Rohe, and the Wassilly chair by Marcel Breuer.  Herman Miller was famous for the Aeron chair, the Noguchi table, the Marshmallow sofa, and the Eames Lounge Chair, among many others.  These companies have been the leaders in well-designed, comfortable office furniture for generations, and in 2021 they merged.  With us today is Ryan Anderson, vice president for global research and insights at MillerKnoll – and podcast host of Looking Forward: Conversations about the Future of Work. Later on, jazz with the remarkable Tony Desare.  

For me, the 1980s comes down to two things: The Nakamichi RX-505 Cassette Deck and Metropolitan Home magazine. _____ First, the gear. _____ The Nakamichi RX-505 was an audiophile's wet dream. It was prominently featured in the steamy 1986 film, 9½ Weeks. In a scene from that movie, Mickey Rourke walks Kim Basinger into his monochrome Hell's Kitchen penthouse, where she glides through a living room full of furniture by Marcel Breuer, Richard Meier, and Charles Rennie Mackintosh. In the middle of it all, the Nakamichi opens, flips the Brian Eno cassette, and closes, automatically. _____ And now, the magazine. _____ Eighties movies featured a slew of inspirational apartments: Tom Hanks' Soho loft in Big, Judd Nelson and Ally Sheedy's Georgetown pad in St. Elmo's Fire, Billy Crystal's East Village flat in When Harry Met Sally. So when apartment dwellers from Des Moines to Manhattan asked themselves “How can I make my apartment look like the ones in the movies,” they turned to Met Home. _____ While the old guard, House & Garden, Architectural Digest, and House Beautiful, relished in displaying palatial estates and lavish celebrity spreads, Met Home was the design inspiration for the rest of us. _____ By the mid-80s — thanks to today's guests: editor Dorothy Kalins and designer Don Morris — Met Home was the best-selling shelter magazine in America, boasting a higher circulation than all of them. _____ It was a magazine rich with design and lifestyle inspiration and beautiful apartments and houses, but Met Home was not a typical decorating magazine. Its stories were very personal and captured its subjects' individual passion for the things that surrounded them. _____ But it didn't last long. By the early 90s, thanks to a recession, Meredith sold Met Home to Hachette, who out-bid Jann Wenner's Straight Arrow Publishers for the magazine. Hachette, though, was more focused on its own shelter book, Elle Decor, and left Met Home to languish and fade. _____ Kalins and Morris were gone, each off on their own new adventures. _____ For many of us, Metropolitan Home was a special magazine from a special time. A hopeful time. We were moving out — to dorms, first apartments, or starter homes. We bought affordable modern furniture from a brand-new Swedish big-box store called Ikea. We drank the New Coke while we played Donkey Kong on our Nintendos. We sang along with “We Are the World.” We watched Top Gun — the original — on our VCRs. And we paid an average of $375 (!!) a month for our rent. _____ Met Home gave its intrepid readers permission to indulge themselves in creating their own home design. And, as Morris says, “We helped expose people to a lot of design trends, but also gave them a sense of how they might be able to bring that into their own lives.”

Pushing Beyond the Boundaries of Architecture at Nomi DesignMelody Farris Jackson, LEED AP, is a visual artist and designer that works between many scales and types of spatial design. Since joining Nomi, she has specialized in the development of branded environments using both architectural and fabricated elements to create unique and custom experiences in architecture. From furniture and installations to campus planning, Melody brings creative solutions to 3 share the narrative and poetic expression of space. As a designer, she has worked on creative concepts for Nike, Siemens, Toyota, and Keurig. She has served as faculty for architecture at the University of Kentucky and for art at Eastern Kentucky University. Melody received her Master of Architecture from Cornell University. As an artist, Melody has had work displayed in galleries in New York, and Kentucky and is currently on display at the Clark Regional Medical Center in Winchester, Kentucky.Matthew Brooks, AIA, is the owner and founder of Nomi Design. His comprehensive body of work spans a wide variety of project types and sizes. Informed by his experience working with Herbert Beckhard (a former partner of the Bauhaus master, Marcel Breuer), Matthew subscribes to the philosophy that the strength of any architectural project lies in its unique set of components: Variations in the type, scale, scope, history and budget of a project influence innovation and design elements, thereby generating a uniquely specific response to each design challenge. Matthew believes that architecture is a holistic practice that should be environmentally, socially and financially sustainable. He challenges himself and the firm to consider each project in terms of 'the bigger picture', and to assimilate that understanding into relevant architecture that is an extension of the client's vision paired with the architect's talent. This week on EntreArchitect Podcast, Pushing Beyond the Boundaries of Architecture at Nomi Design with Melody Farris Jackson and Matthew Brooks.Learn more about Melody and Matthew at Nomi Design, or follow them on Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn.Please visit Our Platform SponsorsDetailed is an original podcast by ARCAT that features architects, engineers, builders, and manufacturers who share their insight and expertise as they highlight some of the most complex, interesting, and oddest building conditions that they have encountered… and the ingenuity it took to solve them. Listen now at ARCAT.com/podcast.Visit our Platform Sponsors today and thank them for supporting YOU… The EntreArchitect Community of small firm architects.Graphisoft + EntreArchitect Archicad BIM software enables design, collaboration, visualization, and project delivery, no matter the project size or complexity. With flexible licensing options and a dedicated support team to guide us along the way, Archicad is an ideal choice for firms and projects of any size. Visit our dedicated landing page at EntreArchitect + Graphisoft for an exclusive special offer waiting for our community of...

Since the 1950's, the US Government has hired Modernist architects like Edward Durell Stone, John Johansen, Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, Richard Neutra, and more recently Kieran Timberlake to design US Embassies all over the world.  Modernism most clearly expresses the idea of freedom and these buildings are a showcase for America.  But as Dr. Phil might say, “how's that working for us?” Joining us are Angel Dizon, who supervised $2B worth of construction projects for the US State Department and is now with the GSA - and returning podcast guest Mina Chow, architecture professor at USC and producer of the documentary Face of a Nation: What Happened to the World's Fair?  Later on, musical guest Oleta Adams. 

Like an IT Girl !!Pour ce nouvel épisode, nous vous entraînons dans les bureaux de la jeune marque française : « The Socialite Family » pour une conversation rythmée avec Constance Gennari, la fondatrice et Marianne Gosset, directrice générale de la marque. Ce qui frappe au premier abord, c'est l'enthousiasme et la passion qui les habitent toutes deux quand elles évoquent leurs projets pour la marque. Elles ont indéniablement la flamme...The « Socialite family » est une vraie success story. Constance Gennari la fondatrice était journaliste quand elle décide de lancer un blog : le site présente d'ailleurs toujours l'intérieur de familles « smart » and « cool ».Issue d'une mère française (antiquaire) et d'un père milanais, Constance Gennari a vite été rattrapée par son envie de choisir des objets mais aussi créer, d'apposer sa pâte. Ainsi « The Socialite » est devenu créateur d'objets, inspirés par Constance Gennari devenue entre-temps directrice artistique mais aussi designer...Elle nous raconte sa nouvelle vie d'entrepreneuse intrépide.Bonne écoute.PS : Au cours de cet épisode, on évoque les designers suivants :Marcel Breuer (1902-1981), reportez-vous aux épisodes n°1 & 2Michel Ducaroy (1925-2009), reportez-vous à l'épisode n°17

In this episode, Cherise is joined by Bruce Redman Becker, President of Becker + Becker, an integrated sustainable architecture and development firm based in Westport, Connecticut. Bruce plans, designs and implements projects that have a social and environmental value, rebuilding and strengthening communities to help revitalize cities. In this conversation, Bruce shares his experience and insights into the adaptive re-use of the iconic Pirelli building, originally constructed in 1969 and designed by legendary Bauhaus trained architect, Marcel Breuer. https://www.hotelmarcel.com/ (Hotel Marcel) is 100% electric and designed to produce all of its energy on site with over 1,000 solar panels. To see project photos and details discussed, visit https://www.arcat.com/podcast (arcat.com/podcast) Hannah Walker, Chief Operating Officer at Sinclair Digital, provides additional insight into the low voltage DC solutions on the project, including a Power over Ethernet (PoE) technique that delivers DC power to devices over copper Ethernet cabling. This project provided unique challenges and opportunities - Financing opportunities inspired pursuit of national historic registration, the existing structure and preservation efforts added some complexity to building upgrades, Passive House principles led to unexpected but welcomed sound attenuation, and much more. If you enjoy this show, you can find similar content at https://gablmedia.com/ (Gābl Media).

In our 3rd show from Modernism Week 2022, we chat with award-winning architects Angie Brooks and Larry Scarpa; learn from Bruce Becker about the newly renovated Hotel Marcel in New Haven CT, formerly the Pirelli building designed by Marcel Breuer, and formerly a billboard for IKEA!  Later on, reading from his latest novel, Death by Design at Alcatraz, Anthony Poon. 

The audio version of my article titled "Marcel Breuer's World." Link to the written piece: https://www.offbeatbudapest.com/features/marcel-breuers-world/

Barry Bergdoll is the leading Breuer scholar in the U.S. He is a Professor of Art History at Columbia University and also a member of the jury which awards the annual Pritzker Architecture Prize. From 2007 to 2013, Barry was the Chief Curator of architecture and design at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. You can find here the audio version of my Breuer article.

Evan Snyderman and Zesty Meyers, owners, and co-founders of the R & Company Gallery, have managed to transform their passion for design into one of the world's finest design galleries. With an obsession for seeking deeper beauty of design objects, and a philosophy based on teamwork, collaboration, and a cross-disciplinary approach, they have defined a full-blown global trade called Collectible Design. In this interview we talk about their creative, and entrepreneurial journey from the B Team, a performance-based glass-artist collaborative group, via the Wild West of the Chelsea Flee market, to exploring design markets in Brazil and Scandinavia. They share the story of how an unexpected sale of Marcel Breuer commissioned furniture, laid the foundation of the gallery we know today.    R & Company exhibits historic designers and represents 22 contemporary artists, creating unique works, limited, editions, and site-specific installations. The present exhibition at 64 White Street includes Katie Stout, a young Brazilian designer Zanine de Zanine and Jeff Zimmerman. Photo credit Francois Dischinger (Evan is slightly to the left and Zesty is slightly to the right in the audio recording)      

On this week's episode of the Practical Preservation Podcast Danielle spoke with Liz Waytkus, Executive Director of the United States chapter of Docomomo International, a non-profit organization dedicated to the documentation and conservation of buildings, sites and neighborhoods of the modern movement for nearly 25 years.Danielle and Liz discussed the importance of local, state, and national designation of historically relevant architecture. Liz's article for Dezeen on the demolition of Marcel Breuer's Geller I house goes into detail about how this type of designation could have saved this significant piece of modern American architecture. 

Architect Mark Cavagnero shares anecdotes about his formation working for Edward Larrabee Barnes, his personal experience with Marcel Breuer's body of work, and insights about the competing issues facing architects designing and building cultural facilities. He touches on his designs for the Walker Art Center, the Oakland Museum of California, and his hopes for the downstream effects of the new infrastructure legislation signed into law by President Biden.

Architect Mark Cavagnero shares anecdotes about his formation working for Edward Larrabee Barnes, his personal experience with Marcel Breuer's body of work, and insights about the competing issues facing architects designing and building cultural facilities. He touches on his designs for the Walker Art Center, the Oakland Museum of California, and his hopes for the downstream effects of the new infrastructure legislation signed into law by President Biden.

Connecticut is famous for the first hamburger (1895), Polaroid camera (1934), helicopter (1939), and color television (1948). It's the home of PEZ, World Wrestling, and Design Within Reach.  It's also a hotbed for Modernist houses by many famous architects such as Philip Johnson, John Johansen, Eliot Noyes, Edward Durell Stone, Gisue and Mojgan Hariri, Marcel Breuer, and even Frank Lloyd Wright.  Joining us is Ken Sena, Connecticut Marcel Breuer homeowner and recently part of the new documentary Breuer's Bohemia by past podcast guest James Crump. Later, a conversation with Philip Johnson homeowners Craig Bassam and Scott Fellows of BassamFellows.

Marcel Breuer was one of several architects who brought European Modernism to the US. He was known for hundreds of projects including the Atlanta Public Library, The Whitney Museum in New York, the Pirelli Building in New Haven, The Housing and Urban Development Building in Washington DC, and many iconic houses in Massachusetts and Connecticut.  No one was more passionate than Breuer about his work - except for maybe Rufus Stillman, who commissioned four houses over the years. Joining us is James Crump, author of Breuer's Bohemia, a new Marcel Breuer book - and movie. Later on, a few minutes with architect Frank Harmon.

ABOUT THE BOOK: Set against a backdrop of 1950s Cape Cod, New York City, and Mexico, Herrera's poignant memoir is the perfect summer read. Herrera is a critically acclaimed biographer, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and now turns her biographer's eye to her own family. UPPER BOHEMIA peels back the layers of a seemingly idyllic, artistic childhood in to explore the complexities of living with unstable, narcissistic parents. For Herrera's parents, both painters, following their artistic inclinations was more important than looking after their children. Her parents each married five times. When Herrera was only three years old, her parents separated. They saw their father only during summers on the Cape, when they and the other neighborhood children would be left to their own devices by parents who were busy painting, writing, or composing music. These adults inhabited a world that Herrera's mother called “upper bohemia,” a milieu of people born to privilege who chose to focus on the life of the mind. Her parents' friends included such literary and artistic heavyweights as artist Max Ernst, writers Edmund Wilson and Mary McCarthy, architect Marcel Breuer, and collector Peggy Guggenheim. On the surface, Herrera's childhood was idyllic and surreal. But underneath, the pain of being a parent's afterthought was acute. Her unique upbringing was expanded by art and by a reverence for nature, but her early years were also marred by abuse and by absent, irresponsible adults. Exquisitely written and unflinchingly honest, UPPER BOHEMIA is ultimately a story of resilience and redemption. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Hayden Herrera is an art historian and the author of biographies of Frida Kahlo, Arshile Gorky, Mary Frank, Isamu Noguchi, and Henri Matisse. Her biography of Gorky was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and her biography of Noguchi won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She lives in New York City and Cape Cod. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/steve-richards/support

Miriam Kelly, Restoration Architect with Beyer Blinder Belle talks about the restoration process involved in the design of Met Breuer. Marcel Breuer's iconic 1966 building –originally designed for the Whitney Museum –has been restored and transformed into a new home for The Metropolitan Museum of Art's modern and contemporary art program.  Breuer was at the height of his career when he designed what was his first museum and was the recognized master of using what he called “close to Earth materials,” particularly stone and concrete. The building is bold and intimate at the same time, with an integrity, beauty, and honesty of design, materials, and execution that places it among the most distinguished mid-century modern buildings in New York. 

Today is the 119th birthday of the designer and architect Marcel Breuer. I guarantee you have sat in a chair he designed or at least in one inspired by one he designed. They are beautiful. He is a big name in Mid Century Modern and Brutalist styles. The world is a better place because he was in it and still feels the loss that he has left. This episode is also available as a blog post. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/waldina/message

This week: the Frick Collection in New York has moved temporarily from its Gilded Age Mansion on Central Park to Marcel Breuer’s 1960s building created for the Whitney Museum. So what happens when the Old Masters meet Brutalism? We talk to Xavier Salomon, deputy director and chief curator of the Frick about this remarkable change of setting for one of the world’s great collections. We talk to Vincent Noce about his new book L'Affaire Ruffini, following an Old Master forgery scandal, involving works by artists including Cranach, Hals and Orazio Gentileschi and some of the world's most august institutions. And for this episode’s Work of the Week the artist Collier Schorr talks about the photographer August Sander's Young Soldier, Westerwald, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (and various other museum collections). See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

En el sur de Mar del Plata, Playa La Serena, funcionó el restaurante y local bailable Parador Ariston, construido por Marcel Breuer, ex maestro de la Bauhaus y uno de los arquitectos más importantes de la modernidad del siglo XX. Hoy el edificio está en ruinas. Apertura de Pablo Marchetti del programa 231 de AUNQUE ES DE NOCHE (4-1-2021) AUNQUE ES DE NOCHE. De lunes a viernes de 2 a 5 AM (hora Argentina) por Radio AM 750. Conducción: Pablo Marchetti. Con Guadalupe Cuevas y Manuel Campi. Producción: Rama Preckel. Diseño de sonido: Federico Klas. Mensajes a nosoypablomarchetti@gmail.com Mirá, escuchá y leé todo lo que hago, acá www.pablomarchetti.com

Along with Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe, LeCorbusier, and Marcel Breuer, architect Walter Gropius was one of the most influential Modernist architects of the 20th century. Gropius founded the heralded Bauhaus in Dessau, Germany, but the rise of Hitler in the 1930's drove Gropius first to London working for Maxwell Fry, and later to Cambridge MA where he taught at Harvard and MIT. His post-war houses with Marcel Breuer were a distinctive combination of unusual geometries that people still treasure as owners and as fans. His granddaughter Erika Pfammatter is a musician, music teacher, and former minister of music. She's also the daughter of architect Charles Forberg and the stepdaughter of another famous architect, John Johansen. Later, a very special Gropius-related song by the one and only Tom Lehrer, still going strong at 92.

Es geht um Ikonen der Designgeschichte in dieser Folge von SOFA SO GOOD und zu allererst muss natürlich die Frage geklärt werden: ab wann darf etwas eigentlich als Klassiker bezeichnet werden? Sind die Moderatorinnen eventuell selbst schon welche, weil sie in Ihrer Jugend noch Festnetztelefone mit Schnur verwendet haben? Bettina Billerbeck saß dabei außerdem stets auf einem Wassily Chair von Marcel Breuer, definitiv ein Bauhausklassiker, den sie damals, unbelastet von kulturhistorischem Wissen, einfach nur wahnsinnig unbequem fand.Anne Zuber liebt an Klassikern vor allem die Geschichten, die sich um ihre Entstehung und ihre Gestalter ranken und findet, dass sie ähnliche Freuden wie das Lesen einer Gala bereithalten, nur eben mit mehr schwarzweißen Fotos.Einige Tipps für bezahlbare Klassiker haben die beiden Moderatorinnen auch (dabei sind auch gute Geschenketipps) und sie raten außerdem unmissverständlich und mit strengen Stimmen ausschließlich zum Kauf von Originalen: Kopien sind qualitativ immer schlechter, moralisch verwerflich und außerdem illegal. Das gilt übrigens auch für Podcasts!

Cinquième épisode avec le designer et architecte d'intérieur, Pierre Gonalons.Nous avons rencontré Pierre Gonalons, 42 ans, designer dont le geste épuré, sensible et original l'a placé parmi les meilleurs. Son travail a ce "je ne sais quoi", de typiquement français...Il se renouvelle à chaque projet : "Pierre Gonalons" ne fait jamais du Pierre Gonalons et c'est peut-être là qu'est sa force...Nous avons parlé de sa formation, de ses inspirations, de ses créations. Nous avons découvert un homme extrêmement affûté sur l'histoire des arts décoratifs, du design, des réalisations des grands designers. Au fil de la conversation, Pierre Gonalons se livre pour nous permettre de mieux comprendre son processus créatif.Plusieurs boutiques et galeries présentent le travail de Pierre Gonalons : ascete.com (fondée à 23 ans par Pierre en personne), theinvisiblecollection.com, taipingtent.com, kholkoze.fr et masierogroup.com.Pierre Gonalons sera à la Paris Design Week du 3 au 12 septembre 2020 (plus d'infos: maison-objet.com/paris-design-week/les-participants-pdw/pierre-gonalons-a-l-hotel-de-soubise).Il nous donne rendez-vous aussi, fin août dans le Marais à Paris pour l'ouverture du bar-disquaire de la maison de Productions Rupture, un lieu qu'il a entièrement repensé, au 11 rue du Vertbois, Paris 4e ( instagram @rupture.tv...)...En savoir plus: De nombreux designers et créateurs sont évoqués dans cet épisode (par ordre alphabétique) : Alvar Aalto, Dino Gavina, René Lalique, Raymond Loewy, Pierre Paulin, Man Ray, Kazuhide Takahama, Roger Tallon et Slavik.Quant aux maisons d'éditions historiques, sont évoquées Artek et iitala, fondées par Alvar Aalto et toujours en activité, Flos et ParadisoTerrestre (fondées par Dino Gavina, Flos étant toujours en activité et Pardiso terrestre a été relancée en 2015 par Gherardo Tonelli). Enfin, l'incontournable maison Knoll...  Parmi les objets et créations évoqués, on trouve les chaises Domus et Mademoiselle de Ilmari Tapiovaara, la chaise Wassily de Marcel Breuer.S'agissant des créations de Pierre Gonalons, sont évoqués la table Sienna, sa montre AC2001 et la collection AC100/101/102 ... visibles sur ascete.com, le canapé San Primo visible sur pierregonalons.com, les suspensions King Sum visibles sur theinvisiblecollection.com, et les luminaires Horo visibles sur masierogroup.com.Bonne écoute !Et retrouvez-nous sur insta : @le_trait_podcast

In questo episodio di Ferragosto per non lasciarvi senza puntata podcast, rispolveriamo alcuni approfondimenti relativi ad alcune storiche sedute icone di design. Ovvero parleremo della sedia B3 anche soprannoninata Wassily di Marcel Breuer; Approfondiremo storia e caratteristiche della celebre Panton Chair disegnata nel 1960 da Verner Panton; Parleremo di un classico del design, quella che tutti conosciamo come la Sedia del regista; Ed infine parleremo di un archetipo del design italiano come la poltrona Lady disegnata da Marco Zanuso. Buon ascolto.

Des antiquaires et vide-greniers, la chine (action de chiner) s'est beaucoup déplacée sur internet. Quels sont les apports des sites internet professionnels dans la recherche de meuble vintage ?Avec nos invités, Lionel OBADIA créateur de Design Market et Christophe COUOT expert-conseil spécialisé en design, on évoque les designers phares de la première moitié du XXè siècle. On se pose la question de l'intérêt du mobilier vintage par rapport à la production actuelle. On s'intéresse au métier de conseil en Art et en Design, aux formations qui y mènent.Avec des exemples à l'appui : la chaise Wassily de Marcel Breuer (1925), le fauteuil Lounge de Charles et Ray Eames (1956), les lampes Liane de Ronan et Erwan Bouroullec (2010)… on compare les prix du neuf et de l'occasion. On jette un regard critique sur la spéculation qui entoure le mobilier vintage de collection ou collectionnable.Et comme toujours, au fil de la discussion, des idées échangées et des références évoquées, vous enrichissez votre niveau de connaissance sur le Design.Partagez et retrouvez-nous sur instagram @le_trait_podcast

LE TRAITLe podcast qui part à la rencontre des créateurs, designers, architectes…by Estelle et Benoîtinstagram : @le_trait_podcast1er épisode avec Anne Bony - Historienne du DesignAvec Anne Bony, nous posons les bases du sujet qui est au cœur de la saison 1: le Design. Qu'appelle-t-on Design ?En sa compagnie, nous faisons un tour d'horizon de l'histoire du design.Retrouvez les ouvrages de Anne Bony aux Editions du Regard, mais pas que. Elle est aussi publiée chez d'autres éditeurs, tels que Flammarion, Larousse...Au cours de cet épisode, plusieurs designers sont évoqués, ainsi que plusieurs galeristes. On parle aussi de la chaise Wassily créée par Marcel Breuer. La première chaise en tube d'acier de toute l'histoire du meuble. Retrouvez-en, la photo et le portrait de son créateur, sur notre compte Instagram @le_trait_podcast.Les galeristes:François Laffanour (www.galeriedowntown.com)Philippe Jousse (www.jousse-entreprise.com)En attendant les barbares (www.barbares.com)Carpenters Gallery (www.carpentersworkshopgallery.com)Kreo (www.galeriekreo.com)Lieu:Baccarat Maison 11 place des Etats-Unis - ParisDesigners:Jacques AdnetMathieu MategotJean GouldenJean DunandJasper MorrisonElisabeth GaroustePierre PaulinMatali CrassetMarcel BreuerMarc StamPatrick JouinPhilippe StarckRaymond LoewyIngo MaurerIngrid DonatVincent DubourgHumberto et Fernando CampanaRonan et Erwan BouroullecCharlotte PerriandJean ProuvéMarc NewsonNacho CarbonellAlexandre NollAndrée PutmanLidewij EdelkoortNaoto FukasawaKonstantin GrcicHella JongeriusOtto WagnerEric JourdanFrançois BauchetJean-Michel WilmotteDjo BourgeoisAbonnez-vous !!Vive le design et à bientôt pour le prochain épisodeCommentez sur Instagram @le_trait_podcastContactez-nous : letraitpodcast@gmail.com

La chaise en tubes d’acier de Marcel Breuer, la théière en métal de Marianne Brandt, le placard pour célibataires de Joseph Pohl… Voilà quelques objets emblématiques de ce qui a été, de 1919 à 1933, à la fois un établissement d’enseignement et une philosophie de l’art, du design et de l’architecture. Son but : créer des objets de la vie courante aussi esthétiquement plaisants que fonctionnels. Christine Contandriopoulos, spécialiste de l’histoire de l’architecture, explique à Jacques Beauchamp comment cette esthétique façonne encore le monde qui nous entoure, 100 ans après son apparition.

Born in Boston, architect Eliot Noyes graduated Harvard University. After working for Boston's Coolidge Shepley Bulfinch & Abbott, he left to work for Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer. Awarded a Wheelwright Traveling Fellowship, he toured the US visiting Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater and Taliesin; Eliel Saarinen's Cranbrook Academy of Art; and Richard Neutra houses.  After returning briefly to Gropius and Breuer, he became the first director of the Industrial Design Department at the Museum of Modern Art in 1940, launching the careers of Charles and Ray Eames.  Noyes redefined how design was perceived inside major corporations such as IBM and Mobil.  He is recognized for designing World's Fair pavilions in Brussels, Belgium, San Antonio, Montreal, and New York. He was one of the noted Harvard Five architects, which included Marcel Breuer, Philip Johnson, John Johansen, and Landis Gores. Our guest Fred Noyes is the son of Eliot Noyes. Fred Noyes worked for Graham Gund and Cambridge Seven and for over thirty years has run his own firm designing everything from hospitals to Bill and Hillary Clinton’s summer White House on Martha’s Vineyard. He was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Education from the Boston Architectural College in 2007 and lectures on architecture, biology, visual studies, and biochemistry. He owns the Noyes House II where he grew up, a house that he put under a preservation easement -- which protects it forever.

In the lovely town of New Canaan CT, from the 1940s through the 1990s, no one was more influential than architect Philip Johnson. His internationally-famous Glass House celebrated its 70th anniversary recently with a huge outdoor party and aerial performance by Philippe Petit, known for his daring and highly unauthorized wirewalk between the World Trade Center towers pre-2001. New Canaan is full of mid-century Modernist architecture from Johnson, Eliot Noyes, Marcel Breuer, John Hedjuk, and John Johansen, collectively known as the Harvard Five, plus other architects such as Edward Durell Stone, Frank Lloyd Wright, and James Evans.  Host George Smart sat down inside the Johnson-designed 1953 Wiley House with Inger Stringfellow and Cristina Ross.

"100 anni di Bauhaus" - Marcel Breuer di Enrico Morteo

Say the phrase “Cape Cod house,” and most people picture a quaint, grey-shingled cottage. But deep in the woods of Wellfleet, a group of outliers defy that stereotype. These are modern homes built by a group of bohemian designers who gravitated to the area in the 1930s and 40s and pioneered the school of modern architecture. Several of these houses have been restored by the Cape Cod Modern House Trust, which offers tours of the homes during summer. “A group of American self-taught architects came to Wellfleet and started homesteading and building their own version of modern architecture,” said Peter McMahon, who founded the Cape Cod Modern House Trust in 2006. “They hadn’t gone to architecture school, so this was sort of like a naïve version of modern architecture that they had seen in Europe.” These American designers became friends with a group of European designers who were emigrating to America during the run-up to World War Two – people like Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer and

1919 wurde die Bauhaus-Schule gegründet. Zum hundertjährigen Jubiläum arbeitet Möbelbauer Christian Drescher mit jungen Designern zusammen und präsentiert eine Neuauflage der Bauhaus-Klassiker.

Ah, Cape Cod, the arm-shaped stretch of Massachusetts where Boston goes in the summer.  The sun.  The ocean.  The traffic.  The clam chowder.  The summer theatre productions.  And best of all, except for perhaps the clam chowder, the modern architecture by Marcel Breuer, Walter Gropius, and others. There are more than 100 modernist houses representing a little-known treasure map of residential architecture.  Our guest Peter McMahon is Principal of PM Design.  Peter curated an exhibition on Cape Cod Modernist architecture for the Provincetown Art Museum.  This led to the creation of the unique and highly effective Cape Cod Modern House Trust, which documents and preserves these houses and makes them available for the public to stay in.  His own summer house in Wellfleet MA was published in House Beautiful and Outside and he is co-author with Christine Cipriani of Cape Cod Modern: Mid-Century Architecture and Community on the Outer Cape. 

Det finns väl knappast något namn som förknippas mer med möbler i stålrör än Marcel Breuer? När han satt på sin cykel i Dessau 1925 tänkte han på fordonets ram i metallrör och insåg vilka fantastiska möbler man skulle kunna tillverka med samma material. Litteratur: Jean-Louis Cohen, "Le Corbusier", Taschen, Köln, 2015 Följ DesignPodden på Instagram @designpodden för bilder och vidare lästips. DesignPodden kommer varje vecka göra nerslag i designhistorien med fokus på 1900-talet och Skandinavien.

Next year will mark the centennial of the founding of Bauhaus, the German center for aesthetic thought founded by Walter Gropius. Known for its functionalist structures and unadorned style, the movement formally ended in 1933, the final year of the Weimar Republic. Still, its influence continues to this day, informing design choices in a wide variety of fields—from architecture to typography, fashion to household items. National Humanities Center Fellow Elizabeth Otto, associate professor of art history at the University of Buffalo, is completing a book that challenges conventional understandings of one of Europe’s most influential art institutions. Otto’s work uncovers new areas of inquiry, including the school’s engagement with the irrational, the spiritual, and the pursuit of functional perfection. In this podcast, Otto maps the aesthetic and intellectual lineage of the Bauhaus, paying special attention to the many figures—especially women—who’ve been overshadowed by more celebrated colleagues like Josef Albers and Marcel Breuer, the father of Brutalism. She also addresses origin myths animating the movement, such as the influence of World War I on Bauhaus founders. With attention to questions of gender and sexuality, Otto explores how the legacy of the war complicated ideas of masculinity in Germany during this era, inflecting the idea of the “artist engineer.”

Elena Platonova sits down with Stefania Bortolami to talk about her new gallery in Tribeca, Daniel Buren's show inaugurating the space and her ambitious plan to get art across America including into former fast food outlets. In this podcast, Bortolami and Platonova discuss: *Has Chelsea left galleries no more room for error? *Will TriBeCa take over from the Lower East Side as the next gallery neighborhood? *Daniel Buren—"the Stripe Guy"—his latest exhibition and his career? *Her program to bring art exhibitions to cities around the US. Next up, New Haven's remarkable Marcel Breuer masterpiece.

This week on the podcast, Donna, Ken and Amelia discuss the uncertain future of downtown Atlanta's brutalist Public Library (the last building Marcel Breuer designed), how Shigeru Ban's relief efforts in Ecuador relate to his celebrity, and the emergence of a heavy-hitting lobbyist group for driverless cars in the US.   Shownotes: News pieces discussed in this show: Google, Uber, Lyft, Ford and Volvo join forces to lobby for autonomous vehicles Shigeru Ban arrives in Ecuador to train locals in relief architecture Breuer's Brutalist library in downtown Atlanta faces demolition The campaign to save Marcel Breuer's Grosse Central Pointe Library, started on Archinect Venice Biennale director Alejandro Aravena: "Our challenge must be to go beyond architecture."