Word: neutra
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...name Richard Joseph Neutra means nothing at all to most Americans. Of all architects who have made their reputations in the U.S., Richard Neutra ranks second only to lordly Frank Lloyd Wright...
Last week publishers in Italy and South America were planning books about Neutra. And an issue of the French magazine L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui, devoted almost entirely to him, had reached...
...bandied Spanish and Portuguese with famed Latin-American Scholar Samuef Guy Inman, even staged fiestas for visiting Latin-American sailors. For music, there was French Composer Darius Milhaud and the Budapest String Quartet, with whom some quartet-struck students carried on a mild flirtation. There were also Architect Richard Neutra, ex-German Political Scientist Hans Simons, many another native and foreign celebrity. But the most popular and interesting character was Aurelia Reinhardt herself...
...California architects are mostly as young as their ideas. Oldest of them, and acknowledged as leader of the group, is 50-year-old, Viennese-born Richard Neutra, a former lecturer at Germany's famed Bauhaus, who went to Los Angeles 16 years ago to build houses in the stark international style, but whose ideas have since thawed out in the California sunshine. The others represented in San Francisco's exhibition were nearly all in their 30s or early 40s; Harwell Hamilton Harris, who used to be a sculptor, has been building houses for only seven years; his paper...
...Angeles Museum decided to show the public how city planners thought the ideal Los Angeles should look. With help from the County Regional Planning Commission, and a group of famous architects and designers including California's R. J. Neutra and Cranbrook Academy's Walter Baermann, the museum's director, balding Roland McKinney, last fortnight opened the biggest city planning show California had ever seen. They were joined by the Los Angeles chapter of Telesis, a militant group of Pacific Coast architects who want California to look like a Lewis Mumford dreamworld...