Word: neutraã
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...Neutra??s designs, however, were less formal and more pragmatic than those of many of his contemporaries, concentrating more on materials and methods than form. This exactly suited the temperament of a young philanthropist, John Nicholas Brown, who was looking to build a summer home on Fishers Island, R.I., for his family. Brown was a Harvard-educated man with a life-long passion for modern art and architecture. Interested in medieval art during the early 1920s, he collaborated with the architect Ralph Adams Cram to design the interior of the Gothic Chapel at St. George?...
What is the value of creation, when there is no permanent symbol of that creation? This is the central question of Windshield: Richard Neutra??s House for the John Brown Family, the current exhibition at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum. The house, named Windshield after the large amounts of glass used in its construction, has achieved more fame for its ill-fate than its revolutionary design. Completed in 1938, the house stood as a beacon of modern design for a mere week before it was significantly damaged by a hurricane. The house was rebuilt...
...Browns and Neutra through the use of obvious sources—telegrams and re-worked floor-plans—but also through the use of more subtle instances of collaboration, such as a scrawled “See notes here!” in red pencil on plans, Neutra??s reminders to himself to consult the Browns’ suggestions. Windshield utilizes a variety of Neutra??s drawings to convey the evolutionary process of the project, but simultaneously treats each work as a drawing in its own right. Small colored-pencil sketches of elevations and detailed...
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