A newcomer to America is the great modern architect Michael Breuer, some of whose works are now on exhibition in Robinson Hall. At the age of thirty-six Breuer is now one of the foremost of Modern architects and it is from his creative genius that a new era in American architecture may spring.

Born in Hungary and educated in Germany, Breuer brings to his works an international aspect, for he has traveled and practiced in Germany, England, Spain, Switzerland, and the Mediterranean countries. Based on thoroughly modern principles of design, his works, however, do not stand out like sore thumbs upon the landscape as do so many of the buildings of his contemporaries, for he has been able to incorporate into his style vernacular and traditional details which adapt the works to the surroundings in which they are placed.

It is for this reason that his works in America are regarded with keen interest. In this country he has a great respect for regional traditions and he is particularly interested in using existing American constructive methods as potentially modern devices. He should provide a great stimulus to architecture here and should produce a balance of adaptation and creation, that our architecture so sorely needs.

Most of the plans and photographs on view in the exhibit at the Architectural School are of works done abroad. The designs are illustrated by many fine pictures with plans that he has drawn attached. Showing well the wide scope of his imagination is the "Garden City of the Future." The buildings are arranged so that a maximum amount of light enters every part and with wide expanses of glass and white glistening exteriors the impression given is that of light, airy construction. Wide boule-yards run symmetrically throughout the city and on every side are beautifully landscaped gardens and parks.

Breuer's modern residential dwellings are masterpieces of their type. Lacking the stiffness and coldness of many Cubistic creations, they have movement, life, and fluidity which makes them extremely pleasing to the eye.

Not only has Breuer been working on his own creations, but he has been cooperating with Walter Gropius on several buildings now in progress of construction in the East. On a table is a model of one such house being built at Cohasset, Massachusetts, a building perfectly adapted for use as a summer home and for its location looking out over the ocean.