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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 59. Chapters: Marcel Breuer, Emery Roth, Yona Friedman, Oskar Kaufmann, Paul Laszlo, Ernő Goldfinger, Alexander Strausz, Alfred Hajos, Gabor Preisich, Karoly Kos, Csaba Markus, Odon Lechner, Ernő Rubik, Frigyes Schulek, Adam Somlai-Fischer, Alajos Hauszmann, Miklos Ybl, Istvan Beothy, Laszlo Hudec, Friedrich Grunanger, Denes Gyorgyi, Ervin Y. Galantay, Imre Makovecz, Titus de Bobula, Bela Gerster, Viktor Rumpelmayer, Laszlo Rajk Jr., Jakab Fellner, Kalman Giergl, Johann Joseph Thalherr, Jozsef Hild, Frigyes Feszl, Imre Steindl, Ferenc Ban, Samu Pecz, Ferenc Pfaff, Endre Misteth, Ignac Alpar, Arthur Meinig, Laszlo Foldes, Geza Maroti, Aladar Arkay, Ferenc Reitter, Victor Nellenbogen, Roland Wank, Lipot Baumhorn, Albert Schickedanz, Emil Agoston, Ignaz Wechselmann, Jenő Bory, Antal Szkalnitzky, Istvan Medgyaszay, Dezső Lauber, Bertalan Arkay, Gyula Partos, Gyula Kaesz, Peter Janesch, Miklos Hofer, Laszlo Csaba, Ede Magyar, Bela Lajta, Zsigmond Quittner, Adolf Lang, Győző Czigler, Floris Korb, Antal Kagerbauer, List of Hungarian architects, Istvan Kiss, Istvan Bokros, Ernő Foerk, Gyula Rimanoczy, Hubert Pal Algyay, Jozsef Jung, Gyula Rochlitz, Akos Eleőd. Excerpt: Marcel Lajos Breuer (21 May 1902 Pecs, Hungary - 1 July 1981 New York City), architect and furniture designer, was an influential Hungarian-born modernist of Jewish descent. One of the masters of Modernism, Breuer displayed interest in modular construction and simple forms. Known to his friends and associates as Lajko, Breuer studied and taught at the Bauhaus in the 1920s. The Bauhaus curriculum stressed the simultaneous education of its students in elements of visual art, craft and the technology of industrial production. Breuer was eventually appointed to a teaching position as head of the school's carpentry...