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This thesis analyzes selected works across different phases of his professional development, tracing a red thread in his design approach and stylistic consistency. 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The interesting turnin his career and his professional journey from a craftsman to a designer and later to an architect gives avery good example of the important role of craft in architecture. The following paper analyses selected projects from the different periods of his career development. A red thread is defined through the years in terms of design approach and style. His work is analysed and used as a starting point on a discussion about the current architectural development. The paper offers interesting comparative analysis and conclusions about the place of art and craft in architecture nowadays and the existing paradox between it and the industrialization and mass production taking place.  \nKey words: craft, architecture, mass production, Bauhaus, Breuer, modernism  \nPreface  \nPOEM  \n‘’Often you ask: where and how and what are AESTHETICS beyond functions needed?  \nColors which you can hear with ears;  \nSounds to see with eyes;  \nThe void you touch with your elbow;  \nThe taste of space on your tongue;  \nThe fragrance of dimensions;  \nThe juice of stone. ’’  \n- Marcel Breuer, October 5, 1951  \nVague and descriptive, defining and broadening at the same the is the ‘’first and only poem‘’ of Marcel Breuer with which he concludes one of his lectures as a Bauhaus professor held in October 1951 and dedicated to the Vassar cooperative house. He enters the role of a poet to explore the ‘’directions of aesthetics’’ but without firmly defining them since ‘’a poet is forgiven for many more things than an architect’’(Address at Dedication of the Vassar Cooperative House, October 5, 1951. -Marcel Breuer Digital Archive, n.d.) . The poem points out on the movements celebrated at the Bauhaus alongside the arts and craft - functionalism. This already addresses some tension points between the approach towards the functional and the one of the massproduced architectural element. Especially when the industrialisation that suggests that the construction and function are fully detached , in which the construction becomes a design principle and leads to production of non-specific spaces. (Pilsitz, Martin. (2013) .  \nTable of Contents  \nPreface ................................................................................................................................................................................................. 3  \n1. Introduction ................................................................................................................................................................................ 5  \n1.1 Arts and Crafts movement and the rejection of mass production ....................................................................... 5  \n1.2 Modernism and how did it evolve from the craftsman movement ..................................................................... 6  \n1.3 Comparison between the two movements – Arts and Crafts and Modernism............................................... 6  \n1.4 Subject relevance nowadays ........................................................................................................................................ 7  \n2. Structure and Methodology................................................................................................................................................... 7  \n3. Bauhaus as an Example – 1919-1933 ................................................................................................................................. 7  \n3.1 The Bauhaus building in Dessau-1925 ............................................................................................................................. 9  \n4. 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