ISBN 978-3-8365-4469-6 Edition: German ISBN 978-3-8365-4473-3 Edition: English A lively journey into the modern age Elegant steel and vibrant concrete In 1956, Time magazine described him as one of the leading "designers of the 20th century". To this day, Marcel Breuer (1902-1981) - Bauhaus graduate and lecturer, emigrant from Nazi Germany, professor at Harvard and internationally renowned architect - is regarded by architects and designers alike as a shining light of modernism. With his famous tubular steel chairs, which are still in use today, he reinvented sitting and was already regarded as a design god before he turned to architecture. Breuer's buildings, including the UNESCO building in Paris and the Whitney Museum in New York, are less well known, but are in no way inferior to his furniture icons. His innovative single-family homes, which distinguish between semi-public and private spaces, are also considered outstanding designs. In this introduction, we chart Breuer's entir