Marcel Breuer's Geller House I demolished dramatically overnight in USA

Marcel Breuer's first binuclear house, Geller I in Lawrence, New York has been demolished in the dead of night, outraging  local, national and international advocacy groups.

Geller I was instrumental in the expansion of Breuer's work into private practice and piqued the interest of New Yorks' Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) to commission Breuer to design his well-known The House in the Museum Garden piece of 1949.

DOCOMOMO US author Liz Waytkus discusses:

The Geller House and Breuer’s other residential designs of the 1940s and 1950s were both extremely innovative and widely influential. The interest and demand for modern family dwellings post-World War II prompted the Museum of Modern Art to commission Breuer to design an exhibition house in the museum’s courtyard entitled The House in the Museum Garden (1949), “a country home for the commuter, intended to be built by any contractor.” The exhibition drew over 70,000 visitors and transformed the public’s idea of a new type of home for the modern American family.

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To learn more about Geller I, visit the Marcel Breuer Digital Archive at the Syracuse University Libraries.