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
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
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
Jardinette Apartments, 1929, Richard Neutra with R.M. Schindler
The Jardinette Apartments, Richard Neutra with Rudolf Schindler, 1929, Hollywood.
Intertwined Agendas: Comparing the Lovell houses, Schindler and Neutra
Notes for a Talk: Comparing the “Two Lovells,” Rudolf M. Schindler’s Lovell Beach House, Newport Beach, 1926; Richard J. Neutra’s Lovell Health House, Los Angeles, 1929. A PORTRAIT OF INTERTWINED AGENDAS – Transcending Style Both architects and both buildings attempt to transcend the constraints of “style,” and in that both support Adolf Loos’s famous dictum … Continue reading
Neutra’s Emerson Junior High School: Reconceiving Education
Statement of Significance Emerson Junior High School Ralph Waldo Emerson Middle School in Westwood, Los Angeles, is significant as one of America’s leading examples of 1930s Modernism in the International Style. Funded during the height of the Great Depression by the Public Work Administration (PWA) under President Franklin D. Roosevelt and largely completed by the … Continue reading
From Luckenwalde to Los Angeles: Neutra’s Forgotten Forest Cemetery
From Luckenwalde to Los Angeles: Neutra’s Forgotten Forest Cemetery Context: A symposium held by the Historical Society of Southern California at the Autry Museum, Saturday 2 April 2010 on Los Angeles 1919 to 1945, addressed art, photography, music, literary culture, and architecture. One speaker was invited to address each arena. I contributed the presentation on architecture, and … Continue reading
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