Word: neutra
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This is to congratulate you on the cover and story on Richard Neutra [TiME, Aug. 15] ... A brilliant architect and a great man. SARAH P. MILLIER The Art Center School Los Angeles, Calif...
Architect Neutra and his fellow members in the cult of the clean line and glassy expanse are as hopelessly enslaved by their own fetishes-the concrete slab, the flat roof, the mantel-less fireplace-as were their predecessors of the gingerbread and rococo schools...
...What's more, the modernists are leaving their customers no place to hide. Surrounded by transparent walls, the harried dweller in the Neutra home must seek total privacy-if he is old-fashioned enough to desire it-in the confines of his bathroom. HOWARD B. UPTON Tulsa, Okla...
...Neutra sell his modern houses to bachelors-they can spend their lonely Sundays shining up those miles of cold plate glass windows. Of course, as long as women are around, it's a limited market...
...Such "functional" handsomeness is not confined to the modern. Among older U.S. examples: early Cape Cod cottages and Navajo Indian hogans. * Sons Dion, Raymond, Frank L. and Mrs. Neutra...