Marcel Breuer

Marcel Lajos Breuer (pronounced broy-ər ; 22 May 1902 – 1 July 1981) was a Hungarian-American modernist, architect and furniture designer of Jewish descent.www.aaa.si.edu 

He was born in Pécs on May 21, 1902. 
One of the masters of modernism, Breuer used the ideas he had developed in the carpentry shop at the Bauhaus. His personal architecture made him one of the world’s most popular architects. He died in New York City.

His philosophy follows the concepts of form over function. 

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