Richard Neutra

Richard Joseph Neutra (April 8, 1892 April 16, 1970) was an Austrian-American architect. Living and building for the majority of his career in Southern California, he came to be considered among the most important modernist architects.

Biography

Neutra was born in Leopoldstadt, the 2nd district of Vienna, Austria Hungary, on April 8, 1892 into a wealthy Jewish family. His Jewish-Hungarian father Samuel Neutra (1844 – 1920) was a proprietor of a metal foundry, and his mother, Elizabeth "Betty" Glaser Neutra (1851 – 1905) was a member of the IKG Wien. Richard had two brothers who also emigrated to the United States, and a sister who married in Vienna.

Neutra attended the Sophiengymnasium in Vienna until 1910, and he studied under Adolf Loos at the Vienna University of Technology (1910–1918). He was a student of Max Fabiani and Karl Mayreder. In 1912 he undertook a study trip to Italy and Balkans with Ernst Ludwig Freud (son of Sigmund Freud).

After World War I Neutra went to Switzerland where he worked with the landscape architect Gustav Ammann. In 1921 he served briefly as city architect in the German town of Luckenwalde, and later in the same year he joined the office of Erich Mendelsohn in Berlin. Neutra contributed to the firm’s competition entry for a new commercial centre for Haifa, Palestine (1922), and to the Zehlendorf housing project in Berlin (1923). He married Dione Niedermann, the daughter of an architect, in 1922.

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Famous quotes by Richard Neutra:

"A building can be designed to satisfy "by the month" with the regularity of a provider. Or it can give satisfaction in a very different way, "by the moment," the fraction of a second, with the thrill of a lover."
"I am an eyewitness to the ways in which people relate to themselves and to each other, and my work is a way of scooping and ladling that experience."
"We were assured by the buyer, ... that it was not endangered. He flat out lied to us."
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Landmarks destroyed, masterpieces incinerated, communities razed: how the LA fires ravaged culture

AOL 21 Jan 2025
The area was also home to numerous architectural landmarks that are now destroyed, including modernist icons by Ray Kappe, Richard Neutra, Rudolph Schindler and the 359-acre estate that once belonged ...
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The Rogue Architectural Preservationist Putting Out Fires in the Palisades

New York Magazine 16 Jan 2025
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The Design Legacy of Los Angeles That Fell to the Fires

New York Times 15 Jan 2025
The finality of the wildfires’ destruction has taken 10 more cherished buildings — by Richard Neutra, Gregory Ain, Eric Owen Moss and others ... .
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The architecturally significant houses destroyed in L.A.’s fires

The Los Angeles Times 11 Jan 2025
Those homes — especially those designed by Midcentury greats such as John Lautner, Richard Neutra, Ray Kappe, and Charles and Ray Eames — have been the obsession of those tracking the threats posed by ...
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The Bulletin 18 Dec 2024
Marine's Christmas gift leaves mom and sister in happy tears ... Militarykind, USA Today ... "He isn’t the only one; there are also homes and buildings by Richard Neutra and John Johansen, and in nearby Roxbury lived sculptor Alexander Calder.".
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Preservation Mirage awards architecture scholarships, previews documentary short

Desert Sun 29 Nov 2024
Next, guests got a sneak peek at the upcoming documentary short "Preservation Mirage Presents Richard Neutra’s Maslon House," which will premiere Feb ... Neutra’s residential masterpiece built in 1962.
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Artist Doug Aitken brings in the L.A. Phil, Natasha Lyonne and a mountain lion for ...

The Los Angeles Times 13 Nov 2024
A white-haired lady wanders Richard Neutra's landmark midcentury house in Silver Lake at night, when she suddenly encounters a mountain lion calmly purring — and a grand piano in the room begins to ...
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Great art returns to Town Hall Theater’s big screen

Addison County Independent 07 Nov 2024
‏Nov. 13 ... Responsible for documenting the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright Richard Neutra, John Lautner, and Frank Gehry, his images show the extraordinary way the unique beauty of the modernist movement in Southern California became known worldwide.
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Pasadena home that Buff, Smith and Hensman designed for Buff’s parents seeks $3M

Orange County Register 25 Oct 2024
(Photo by Shawn Bishop). A view of the open-plan living space and kitchen. (Photo by Shawn Bishop) ... The kitchen ... According to USModernist.org , the Buff family was aquainted with the architects Rudolph Schindler and Richard Neutra and their wives ... 27 ... .
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Richard Neutra's demolished Maslon House subject of short doc premiering at Modernism Week

Desert Sun 24 Oct 2024
The demolition of the Maslon House in Rancho Mirage, designed by Richard Neutra in 1962 for art collectors Samuel and Luella Maslon, sent shockwaves around the architectural world in March 2002.
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Incredibly Rare Architectural Gem Hits the Market for the First Time in 39 Years—With a ...

San Francisco Chronicle 27 Sep 2024
The property, which is in Silver Lake, CA, was designed by architect Richard Neutra's former protégé, Richard Holme, in 1979 ... .
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A 400-year-old oak tree in Santa Clarita Valley gets LA County historic landmark status

Daily Bulletin 25 Sep 2024
24, 2024 ... 26, 2003 ... Show Caption ... Conservancy’s list of more than 811 historic places includes plenty of kitschy bars, iconic restaurants and old buildings as well as homes designed by renowned architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright and Richard Neutra ... .
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Bill would fund restoration of historic F.Q. Sanchez Elementary School

Guam Pacific Daily News 23 Aug 2024
Designed by the renowned architect Richard Neutra, the school was originally named the Magellan School but was later renamed Humatak School, ultimately honoring its first principal, Francisco Q.
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Qatar Museums presents first exhibition to chronicle modern, contemporary visual arts and architecture from Pakistan 

The Peninsula 07 Aug 2024
... planning the future capital Islamabad; and architects from US who contributed to the establishment of the nation-state's institutions, such as Louis Kahn, Richard Neutra and Edward Durell Stone.

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