The Languid Eros of the Lovell Health House
Written in 2014 … it’s 2025 and much has changed. For Philip Johnson and Alfred Barr, reviewing entries for MOMA’s 1932 show on the International Style, Neutra’s Lovell Health House must have been a godsend. While every other building to be exhibited occupied relatively level ground, Neutra’s steel-framed house flew off the hillside into an … Continue reading
What Set Him Apart: The Books on Neutra’s Shelves
Modernist architect Richard Neutra (1892 – 1970) is renowned for his sleek, taut form-making. His ubiquitous trademarks include full-height glass walls, flat roofs, silver paint, white walls, bands of identical fenestration, crimped metal fascias, and broad overhangs. Above all, there is his famous “spider leg,” where a long beam stretches out beyond the building envelope, … Continue reading
The Desert Dialogues: Schindler, Neutra, Frey in the Coachella Valley
Greetings, everyone. It’s been a minute since I’ve been on my site and apologies for the lack of images. They are coming! But I wanted to get this online while I get that done. While the two Palm Springs houses designed by Richard Neutra (1892 – 1970) speak as actors on a “moonscape,” as he … Continue reading
The Bailey House / Case Study House #20
In the summer of 1946, Richard Neutra was recommended to a young dentist, and correspondence between the 30-year-old dentist and the 54-year-old architect began late that year. Stuart Bailey bought his lot in the Pacific Palisades directly from John Entenza, impresario and publisher of Arts and Architecture, who had purchased five acres on a beautiful … Continue reading
Die Ideen des Richard Neutra: The Ideas of Richard Neutra
This is a wonderful and little-known documentary. The Viennese-American Modern architect Richard Neutra (1892 – 1970) not only discusses but in a very physical way demonstrates his radical, prescient ideas about how to design for the human being. The setting is his birth home, Vienna, where Neutra gets to show off in the best sense … Continue reading
TRAPPED BY MIDCENTURY MORES: Mary Roberts teaches Richard Neutra a Painful Life Lesson
There are lots of great stories about how a house came to be. Architect and client so very pleased at the handsome outcome. Beautiful photographs. Big smiles. And then there are the other stories. One such project haunted its architect, Richard Neutra … yet looking at the house in question, you’d swear it was … Continue reading
“The Landscape Architect Cannot Come Later!”
Richard Neutra’s Ideas and Strategies in Landscape
Video/Movie Appearances
1. Neutra: Survival Through Design by PJ Letofsky 2. VS Neutra – The Boomerang Chair
Modern Resources 