Marcel Breuer Photo Project

Photographs of Marcel Breuer’s works by Ágnes Mezősi

A long-term photographic project (since 2019) exploring the modernist legacy of Marcel Breuer through light, detail and perception.

Close-up photograph of a Marcel Breuer designed Cesca chair, emphasizing its geometric lines, tubular steel frame, and cane seat against a dark background, showcasing a minimalist aesthetic.

Marcel Breuer

1902, Pécs - 1981, New York

A Hungarian-born architect and designer, Marcel Breuer was one of the most influential figures of 20th-century modernism. His career began at the Bauhaus in Weimar, where he rose from a carpentry apprentice to become one of the school’s youngest masters. It was here that he created his revolutionary tubular steel furniture, forever changing modern interior design by replacing heavy upholstery with ethereal lightness.His architectural vision was rooted in functionality and an honest respect for materials. In his later American period, he became a pioneer of Brutalism, exploring the sculptural possibilities of raw concrete (béton brut). His monumental works from the Whitney Museum in New York to the Flaine ski resort in France are dramatic encounters between mass and light.

The Project

This project didn’t start as a mission, but as an act of curiosity.
I simply found joy in the journey to these sites, experiencing the spaces through my own eyes. For me, photography was never about documentation it was about the encounter.
A meeting between a way of thinking, the legacy of Marcel Breuer' work, and my own perspective.
This project is more than documentation; it is the result of a personal rebirth. I only began photography after a transformative recovery from illness, which opened my eyes to the world's hidden rhythms. While this series captures Breuer’s legacy, my vision is rooted in a deeper exploration of pure form.

While this series captures Breuer’s architectural monoliths, my vision is rooted in a much earlier, personal exploration of pure geometry and form. This is where it all began.

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Project developed with the support of these institutions.

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Whitney Museum, New York, USA

Marcel Breuer and Hamilton Smith

A great encounter.

IBM Research Center, La Gaude, France

Marcel Breuer and Herbert Beckhard

concrete meets landscape

Baldegg Kloster, Baldegg, Switzerland

Marcel Breuer and Beat Jordi

a spiritual monolith

mundipharma Headquarters, Limburg, germany

Marcel Breuer and Robert F. Gatje

Geometric rigor

Armstrong rubber Building, New haven, usa

Marcel Breuer and Robert F. Gatje

STRUCTURAL SUSPENSION

de bijenkorf, Rotterdam, The netherland

Marcel Breuer and Abraham Elza

THE HONEYCOMB FACADE

former u.s. embassy, the hague, the netherland

Marcel Breuer and Peter Morton

THE TRAPEZOIDAL RHYTHM

unesco, paris, france

Marcel Breuer, Pier Luigi Nervi and Bernard Zehrfussn

THE Y-SHAPED MONUMENT

Van leer building, Amstelveen, The Netherland

Marcel Breuer and H. Hoogveen

Industrial Transparency

Flaine, France

Marcel Breuer, Gerard Chervaz, Laurent Chappis

A brutalist masterpiece in the French Alps

Sarget-Ambrine Headquarters, Mérignac, France

Marcel Breuer and Robert F. Gatje

A rhythmic concrete composition near Bordeaux

ZUP, Bayonne, France

Marcel Breuer and Robert F. Gatje

Rhythmic play with colors

Lehmann College, Shuster Hall, Nyc, usa

Marcel Breuer, Robert F. Gatje and Eduardo Catalano

The intricate geometry of the sun-screen

Lehmann College, Fine Art Building, Nyc, usa

Marcel Breuer, Robert F. Gatje and Eduardo Catalano

A symphony of glass and reflections

Doldertal Houses, Zurich, Switzerland

Marcel Breuer, Emil and Alfred Roth

Modernist lightness in the Swiss landscape

Early works, furnitures and collaboration

Modernist lightness in the Swiss landscape

My journey into photography didn’t begin with a camera, but with a transformation. I only started taking photographs following a recovery from illness an experience that fundamentally altered how I perceive the world, triggering an intuitive obsession with the underlying geometry of existence.These studies were my first steps: a way to find order and rhythm not just in architecture, but in the simplest objects. It began with the 'Coffee Cup' (2014) a discovery that the same interplay of light and shadow exists in a ceramic curve as in a monumental structure. This vision eventually led me to Marcel Breuer’s concrete masterpieces, where I found the ultimate architectural expression of the raw, essential forms I had come to see.