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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...
With the B.s, as with most topflight architects, the contest of modern v. traditional may be all over, with the verdict going to the modernists. The general public has still to be convinced. Architecturally, argue modernists like Neutra, the public has nothing to lose but its chains. But to millions of Americans the chains the modern architect removes are still among the comforts of life: the overstuffed warmth of their living rooms; bedrooms big enough to serve as separate castles-and a refuge from the rest of the family; space to putter and store things in attics and cellars; walls...
...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...