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...southern California is also the stamping ground of one of the world's best and most influential moderns-Los Angeles Architect Richard Joseph Neutra The broad, glassy brows of Neutra's buildings (and those of such onetime Neutra apprentices as Gregory Ain, Raphael bonano and Harwell Harris) line the Pacific shore, nestle in the canyons and beam down from a hundred hilltops. After 23 years in the neighborhood, 57-year-old Vienna-born Richard Neutra has gone a long way toward making the place one of the hotbeds of the U.S. modern...
Between meetings, such world-famed architects as Harvard's functionalist Walter Gropius, Finland's elfin Alvar Aalto, California's machine-minded Richard Neutra, and Brazil's hot-eyed Marcelo Roberto invaded the bar of the mock-colonial Princeton Inn to swap anecdotes about their worst frustrations and snapshots of their favorite jobs. Princeton itself came in for some sly digs. Philadelphia's George Howe, with an eye to the architecturally mixed but mainly neo-Gothic campus, observed that "collegiate Gothic and collegiate Georgian buildings are neither Gothic nor Georgian nor collegiate, but charnel houses...
...Cost Exodus. Like most modern architects (who think of houses not as just places to live but as "machines for living"), Neutra tailors houses to his clients. But he takes it on himself to decide what is best for them, carefully explains to those who come with prepared floor plans that he is "more interested in the plan of your life." He requires all adults in a client's family to detail their actions for a week-their sleeping habits, the friends they see, etc. As a result, Neutra-designed houses are likely to be more livable than they...
...vastly expensive jobs like the Kaufmann house (cost $150,000), Neutra likes to try out ideas to use later in his low-cost projects such as his 600-house Channel Heights project in San Pedro, Calif. Says he: "I have . . . always felt that it was the job of ours and the next following generation to make true the promise of the [industrial] revolution . . . the promise of a general exodus from our metropolitan slums, from rural hovels and, in short, from the pre-industrial standards of living and housing. . . . Whatever we design today . . . has its true contemporary significance only...
...Neutra, who has the pointed eyebrows and sharp beak of a silvery owl, often gets up in the pre-dawn blackness of 4 a.m. to blue-print his ideas. He will travel anywhere to make sure his buildings fit the landscape, the people and the weather. Last week he got set for a long journey; he had just accepted a commission to design a string of hotels and hospitals for the princely Deccan States, India...