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Richard Neutra Architect : Architecture
20th Century American Architecture, United States of America Design Practice
post updated April 5, 2022
Mar 8, 2022
Richard Neutra Hilltop Home, Tujunga, Los Angeles, California, USA
photo : Cameron Carothers
Richard Neutra Hilltop Home, Tujunga L.A.
Richard Neutra was one of America’s most important modern architects from the 1920s to the 1960s designing famous homes such as the Kaufmann Desert House in Palm Springs for Edgar J. Kaufmann (who also commissioned Fallingwater in Pennsylvania), the Julian Bond House in San Diego, and the Kronish House in Beverly Hills.
Richard Neutra Desert House For Sale
Nov 30, 2020
Palm Springs’ Historic Desert House, California, USA
photo : Daniel Solomon for Sotheby’s International Realty
Richard Neutra Desert House
Edgar J. Kaufmann made architectural history twice. First, when he hired Frank Lloyd Wright to design his home, Fallingwater, in Pennsylvania in 1935 and again in 1946 when he commissioned Richard Neutra to create his famed Desert House in Palm Springs. After undergoing a five-year restoration by Marmol Radziner, the Desert House is on the market at $25 million.
Richard Neutra Architect – Key Projects
Key Buildings by architect Richard Neutra (1892-1970)
Kaufmann Desert House, Palm Springs, California, USA
Date built: 1946
photo : Barbara Alfors 2000 [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)], courtesy Wikimedia commons
The Kaufmann House to be auctioned by Christie’s New York in May 2008.
The Kaufmann Desert House is an elegant Modern residence located in Palm Springs.
It was one of the last large-commission domestic projects designed by this architect, but it is also arguably one of his most architecturally noteworthy and famous homes.
It is “one of the most important examples of International style architecture in the United States and the only one still in private hands”.
Lovell House, Los Angeles, California, USA
Date built: 1928
Modernist architect famous for sleek luxurious private houses in southwestern USA.
He was born in Vienna. In 1923 he emigrated to the United States of America.
A key architectural influence: architect Rudolf Schindler
Miller House in Palm Springs, California, USA – design from 1937. This style has come to be known as Desert Modernism:
photo : Ilpo's Sojourn [CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], courtesy Wikimedia commons
Richard Neutra Buildings
Key architectural designs, chronological:
Lovell House, Los Angeles, California, USA
Date built: 1929
Von Sternberg House, San Fernando Valley, USA
Date built: 1935
Emerson Junior High School, West Los Angeles, California
Date built: 1938
Strathmore Apartments, Westwood, Los Angeles, California
Date built: 1938
Ward-Berger House, Hollywood Hills, California
Date built: 1939
Kaufmann House, Palm Springs, California
Date built: 1946
Moore House, Ojai, California
Date built: 1952
Bond House, San Diego, California
Date built: 1960
R.J. Neutra Elementary, Naval Air Station, Lemoore, California
Date built: 1960, USA
Gettysburg Cyclorama Center, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA
Date built: 1962 – due for demolition 2008
United States Embassy, Karachi, Pakistan, Asia
Date built: 1963
Kuhns House, Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA
Date built: 1964
Delcourt House, Croix, Nord, France, western Europe
Dates built: 1968-69
Case Study Houses
The Richard and Dion Neutra VDL Research House, Los Angeles, California
Dates built: 1932, 1940 ; 1966
photo courtesy Richard and Dion Neutra VDL Studio/residences
The Richard and Dion Neutra VDL Research House
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The Moore House won an AIA Award
Location: Vienna, Austria / Los Angeles, California, USA
Architect Practice Information
Architectural Education
Technische Hochschule, Vienna, Austria : 1917
He was taught by architect Adolf Loos
Early Career
He worked for Erich Mendelsohn (1921-22) and in America for Frank Lloyd Wright, and then Rudolf Schindler.
Richard set up his architect practice in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Similar to Ray and Charles Eames, Richard’s architectural partner was Dione, his wife. Later his son Dion worked for the practice.
Richard died back in Europe in Wuppertal, Germany. Richard’s son Dion continued the practice as Richard and Dion Neutra Architecture.
Relevant Architectural Links
Celebrated US 20th Century architecture practices:
Erich Mendelsohn architect
Frank Lloyd Wright architect
Books
Life and Shape (Autobiography)
Richard Neutra
Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1962
Richard Neutra and the Search for Modern Architecture
Thomas Hines
Oxford University Press, 1982
Philip Johnson Glass House News, New Canaan, Connecticut, USA
Date built: 1949; Architect: Philip Johnson
photograph : Michael Biondo
Philip Johnson’s Glass House
Morse and Ezra Stiles Colleges, Yale, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Date: 1962, design by architect Eero Saarinen
Renovation + new-build in 2011: KieranTimberlake
image from FD
Morse and Ezra Stiles Colleges
American architecture : US buildings
Net Zero Energy House, Cupertino, CA, USA
Design: Klopf Architecture
photo : Mariko Reed
Net Zero Energy House
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California, USA
Design: Mario Botta / HOK
picture © Andrew McRae
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
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