In 2002 Professor Emerita, Isabelle Hyman, -- who personally knew Marcel Breuer, architect of New York's Whitney Museum, Cleveland's Ameritrust Tower and Atlanta's central library -- had her monograph Marcel Breuer, Architect:The Career And The Buildings published. The book celebrated the 100 year anniversary of Marcel Breuer's 1902 birth. Thereafter, in 2007-08, The U.S. National Building Museum ran an exhibition, curated by Susan Piedmont-Palladino, called Marcel Breuer: Design and Architecture. Now coming up later this year through 2010, Barry Bergdoll, Professor @ Columbia University and Chief Curator of Architecture @ MoMa [The Museum of Modern Art] will have his curated exhibition on display on the 6th Floor @ MoMA; that show being a retrospective on Breuer's Alma Mater, entitled Bauhaus 1919-1933: workshops for modernity.

This is all good news.

Nonetheless, the effort to raise communal awareness about the historical significance of Marcel Breuer's modernist sites -- whether in Cleveland, New York or Atlanta -- still remains an uphill battle.  [continue reading]