Thu 23 Oct
|Glasgow
Breuer: Bauhaus to Brutalist
The life, furniture and architecture of a 20th Century Master. Speakers: Leyla Daybelge and Magnus Englund (Authors of Isokon and the Bauhaus in Britain, and also Walter Gropius: An Illustrated Biography).
Time & Location
23 Oct 2025, 18:00 – 22:00
Glasgow, 20 Bell St, Glasgow G1 1LG, UK
About the Event
From his start as a student and then Master at the Bauhaus in Germany, via a short but productive period in England, Marcel Breuer came to define Modernism and Brutalism in the United States. This richly illustrated lecture by the authors and Isokon Gallery trustees Leyla Daybelge and Magnus Englund places Marcel Breuer as a key form giver of the 20th century, creating furniture, houses and major buildings against a backdrop of world in turmoil.
The Breuer talk is 100 images and takes around 60 minutes. The focus is of course the furniture, which is what he’s known for in Europe and what we want to highlight at Knoll, but in reality, Breuer was an architect who also did furniture, and in the US he's known as an architect first and foremost. Breuer lived and worked in London 1935-37, completing some buildings and other interior projects here, which is often…