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Richard Neutra Architect, Californian building, USA, Practice, Project, News, Studio

Richard Neutra, Architect : Architecture Information

20th Century American Architecture, United States of America



Key Projects

Key Buildings

Kaufmann Desert House, Palm Springs, California, USA
1946

Lovell House, Los Angeles, California
1928

The Kaufmann House to be auctioned by Christie’s New York in May 2008

Richard Neutra (1892-1970)

Modernist architect famous for sleek luxurious private houses in southwestern
USA.

Richard Neutra was born in Vienna. In 1923 he emigrated to the United States of America.

Richard Neutra - key influence: Rudolf Schindler

Californian Architecture

Richard Neutra - Buildings, chronological:

Lovell House, Los Angeles, California, USA
1929

Von Sternberg House, San Fernando Valley, USA
1935

Emerson Junior High School, West Los Angeles, California
1938

Strathmore Apartments, Westwood, Los Angeles, California
1938

Ward-Berger House, Hollywood Hills, California
1939

Kaufmann House, Palm Springs, California
1946

Moore House, Ojai, California
1952

Bond House, San Diego, California
1960

R.J. Neutra Elementary, Naval Air Station, Lemoore, California
1960

Gettysburg Cyclorama Center, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA
1962 - due for demolition 2008

United States Embassy, Karachi, Pakistan
1963

Kuhns House, Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California
1964

Delcourt House, Croix, Nord, France
1968-69

Case Study Houses

The Richard and Dion Neutra VDL Research House, Los Angeles, California
1932, 1940 ; 1966
VDL Research House
photo : Raymond Richard Neutra
The Richard and Dion Neutra VDL Research House

More projects online soon

The Moore House won an AIA Award

Richard Neutra architect : American buildings





Practice Information

Richard Neutra - Education
Technische Hochschule, Vienna, Austria : 1917
Taught by architect Adolf Loos

Richard Neutra - Early Career
He worked for Erich Mendelsohn (1921-22) and in America for Frank Lloyd Wright
then Rudolf Schindler.

He set up his practice in Los Angeles.

Similar to Ray and Charles Eames, Richard's architectural partner was Dione, his
wife. Later his son Dion worked for the practice.

Neutra died back in Europe in Wuppertal, Germany. Richard's son Dion continued
the practice as Richard and Dion Neutra Architecture

Links re Richard Neutra
Adolf Loos architect
Erich Mendelsohn architect
Frank Lloyd Wright architect

Richard Neutra - 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

Richard Neutra : American architect

Richard Neutra teacher : architect Adolf Loos

Austrian Architect

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