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1947 · New Canaan, New Canaan, United States

Marcel Breuer House II image

House in New Canaan, Connecticut

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Marcel Breuer House II

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House in New Canaan, Connecticut

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Field	Marcel Breuer House II 1947 · New Canaan, New Canaan, United States	Pier Luigi Nervi 1932 · Rome, Lazio, Italy
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1947	1932
Place	New Canaan, New Canaan, United States	Rome, Lazio, Italy
Place context	New Canaan, New Canaan, United States	Representative site: Turin, Turin, Italy
Climate	10°C · 13.6h daylight · 15 km/h wind	16°C · 13.8h daylight · 7 km/h wind · via Torino Esposizioni
Focus	House	5 works in corpus
Architects	Marcel Breuer	Pier Luigi Nervi
Linked context	Bureaus Marcel Breuer Associates	Notable works Torino Esposizioni Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption (San Francisco) Norfolk Scope Paul VI Audience Hall
Typologies	house	building church sacred space cathedral education campus building performance venue landscape
Materials	stone timber	concrete
Carbon signals	Stone look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Stone	Concrete look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Concrete
Lower-carbon levers	Check source geography, fabrication intensity, and whether stone is structural, cladding, or finish-only. Track sourcing, certification, and assembly logic rather than assuming timber is automatically low impact.	Look for lower-clinker mixes, reused structure, and scope reductions before fine-grained product swaps.
Accessibility	Access not recorded	3 of 3 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.