I dare you to find a museum that's more fun than New York's Whitney Museum of American Art. Soaring elevators, spectacularly framed windows, that truly beloved compressive stair- everything that's right about Brutalism surrounding one of the world's great art collections. Marcel Breuer also designed other buildings (not to mention a few well known chairs) and taught at the infamous Bauhaus in Germany's Weimar Republic, but it's the Whitney where it all really comes together.

Whitney Museum of American Art
(1966) New York City, United States

Lurching out over Madison Avenue is Marcel Breuer's wonderful Whiney Museum of American Art. Regardless of the current exhibition (which is usually worth it anyway), take the really high elevator to the top floor and take the stairs down, a true adventure in compression and expansion awaits.

Click here to go to the Whitney Museum of American Art site. Closed Mondays and Tuesdays but open late (and pay what you wish) on Friday nights

Armstrong Rubber Headquarters / Pirelli Tire Building
(1969) New Haven, Connecticut, United States

On your way back home from Yale it was always hard to miss Marcel Breuer's Pirelli Tire Building, on the right just as every highway turned into 95 South. In 2003 the building and site attracted the attention of IKEA executives who chose the site for its first Connecticut store. After a lengthy public debate, IKEA announced that it would preserve and integrate the Breuer building into its own, a bit of a forced marriage but one that should prove interesting nonetheless.

Click here to go to the US IKEA site and start looking for its New Haven store. While you're visiting the Breuer building try and buy lots of Swedish furniture with impossible prices, also don't forget to pick up some of the oatmeal crisp cookies (a personal favorite)