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Highlights selected projects of furniture designer and postwar architect Marcel Breuer. Includes a chapter on St. John's Abbey and University, with photos of the Abbey Church and Alcuin Library.

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Description of daily life at Marcel Breuer's architecture firm, and the story behind many of Breuer's projects. By an architect who worked with Breuer for more than two decades. St. John's Abbey is mentioned several times. Alcuin Library is also included.

Scope and Contents Saint John's Abbey Church: Marcel Breuer and the creation of a modern sacred space, by University of St. Thomas professor Victoria Young, shows how conversations between the monks of St. John's Abbey, who were in the forefront of the liturgical movement, and Marcel Breuer, an internationally renowned architect who had never worked on a religious structure, guided the design process of St. John's Abbey and University Church, a striking example of mid-20th century architecture. Archives copy...