page_title: Marcel Breuer
section_title: Independent practice – Berlin and Zurich
hierarchical_section_title: Marcel Breuer / Chronology of Breuer's work / Independent practice – Berlin and Zurich
caption_attribution_description: Mehrfamilienhäuser Doldertal, Zürich, 1933-36 in Switzerland, Architects: Alfred Roth, Emil Roth, Marcel Breuer
context_page_description: Marcel Lajos Breuer, was a Hungarian-born modernist architect, and furniture designer. At the Bauhaus he designed the Wassily Chair and the Cesca Chair which is “among the 10 most important chairs of the 20ᵗʰ century.” Breuer extended the sculpture 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. His work includes art museums, libraries, college buildings, office buildings, and residences. Many are in a Brutalist architecture style, including the former IBM Research and Development facility which was the birthplace of the first personal computer.
context_section_description: 1931	Berlin Building Exhibition – "House for a Sportsman" – Berlin, Germany
  1932	Harnischmacher House I – Wiesbaden, Germany
  — 1954 Harnischmacher House II – Wiesbaden, Germany
  1932	Wohnbedarf Furniture Stores – Basel and Zurich, Switzerland – for Sigfried Giedion
  1935	Doldertal Apartments – Zurich, Switzerland – with A and E Roth for Sigfried Giedion
caption: Doldertal Apartments (1935)
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