 The French government has honored him by inducting him as a "Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres", the French equivalent of induction into the American Academy of Arts and Letters.As a sculptor whose works are frequently large and created for public, architectural settings, Brenner wrote a 1971 article for "Leonardo" magazine (MIT Press) entitled "Concerning Sculpture and Architecture", in which he observes that "the monumental scale of modern sculpture... has quickly moved sculpture from the private to the public sector, that is toward a renewal of its relation with architecture.