The Architecture of Richard Neutra: From International Style to California Modern - Softcover

The Architecture of Richard Neutra; From International Style to California Modern

Trade paperback. Zustand: Very good. 144 pages. 8.9 x 10 x .25 inches. Illustrations. The exhibition of Richard Neutra's architecture this catalog accompanies helped to further that process of "reappraisal" by which a neglected achievement will find a just estimate of its worth. At the Museum the reappraisal of Neutra's architecture began when the Department of Architecture and Design, through a generous grant from the Best Products Company, was enabled to enlarge its collection of architectural models. Although the collection included some thirty models representing major buildings of the modern movement, there was no model of any building by Richard Neutra. This was the first deficiency the Department wanted to remedy, and the obvious choice was Neutra's Lovell house of 1927-29. When the new Lovell house model was shown for the first time in the Museum's 1979 exhibition "Art of the Twenties," it became a subject of animated discussion for the general public as well as for the architects and students who crowded around it. Their interest confirmed the Department's conclusion: Richard Neutra's architecture had been too long neglected and time had come for an exhibition of his work. Richard Neutra moved to the United States by 1923 and became a naturalized citizen in 1929. He worked briefly for Frank Lloyd Wright before accepting an invitation from Rudolf Schindler, a close friend from his university days, to work and live communally in Schindler's Kings Road House in California. Neutra's first works in California were both in the realm of landscape architecture: namely, the grounds of the Lovell Beach House (192225), in Newport Beach, which Schindler had designed for Philip Lovell; and a pergola and wading pool for the complex that Wright and Schindler had designed for Aline Barnsdall on Olive Hill (1925), in Hollywood. Schindler and Neutra would go on to collaborate on an entry for the League of Nations Competition (192627); in the same year, they formed a firm with the planner Carol Aronovici (18811957), called the Architectural Group for Industry and Commerce (AGIC). Neutra subsequently developed his own practice and went on to design numerous buildings embodying the International Style, 12 of which are designated as Historic Cultural Monuments (HCM), including the Lovell Health House (HCM #123; 1929), for the same client as the Lovell Beach House, and the Richard and Dion Neutra VDL Research House (HCM #640; 1966). In California, he became celebrated for rigorously geometric but airy structures that epitomized a West Coast version of mid-century modern residential design. His clients included Edgar J. Kaufmann, (who had commissioned Wright to design Fallingwater, in Pennsylvania), Galka Scheyer, and Walter Conrad Arensberg. In the early 1930s, Neutra's Los Angeles practice trained several young architects who went on to independent success, including Gregory Ain, Harwell Hamilton Harris, and Raphael Soriano. In 1932, Neutra was included in the seminal MoMA exhibition on modern architecture, curated by Philip Johnson and Henry-Russell Hitchcock. From 1943 to 1944, Neutra served as a visiting professor of design at Bennington College in Bennington, Vermont. In 1949 Neutra formed a partnership with Robert E. Alexander that lasted until 1958, which finally gave him the opportunity to design larger commercial and institutional buildings. In 1955, the United States Department of State commissioned Neutra to design a new embassy in Karachi. Neutra's appointment was part of an ambitious program of architectural commissions to renowned architects, which included embassies by Walter Gropius in Athens, Edward Durrell Stone in New Delhi, Marcel Breuer in The Hague, Josep Lluis Sert in Baghdad, and Eero Saarinen in London. In 1965, Neutra formed a partnership with his son Dion Neutra. Between 1960 and 1970, Neutra created eight villas in Europe, four in Switzerland, three in Germany, and one in France. Prominent clients in this period included Gerd Bucerius, publisher. Artikel-Nr. 90088

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