Image of the exhibition. Credit: Jonathan Massey
Visitors to the Marcel Breuer and Postwar America exhibition at the Syracuse University School of Architecture (closing reception this Tuesday, March 22) will see the fruits of a semester-long research seminar, in which students mined our University Library’s Breuer Archives to shed light on some of the famed architect’s less-analyzed or obscure projects. Breuer, of course, is the designer of the famous Whitney Museum in New York City, and the UNESCO headquarters in Paris. During the 1960′s, he was also the architect-of-choice for IBM’s new corporate offices and research labs. He became a late-Modern icon of design in a rapidly changing postwar society. It is thus a little bit of a surprise (and disappointment) to learn that he had designed a complex of buildings for our own city of Syracuse, which unfortunately never saw the light of day. [click to continue…]
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