Neutra

The most influential and important of California architects, Richard Neutra (1892-1970) was born in Vienna and educated and worked in Europe until he immigrated to the United States in 1923. His fascination with America was highly motivating. He worked in Chicago where he studied and worked with Frank Lloyd Wright before moving to Los Angeles, where he worked for the major Southern California architect Rudolph Schindler. His formidable book, Wie Baut Amerika was both a manual and a vision, a survey of American architecture. . Neutra, along with Walter Gropius, Alvar Aalto, Mies Van Der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Schindler were , in the twenties to develop and promote the International style in architecture. In the last years of the decade his Lovell (or Health) House was a legendary modernist building. In regard to his first project, the Jardinette apartments he stated “Into the modern whirl of machinery comes the demand for better homes within the very network of this mechanism.”