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...Windshield project is unique because it represents one of the strongest architect-client collaborations of the modern period. Brown and Neutra exchanged over 150 letters, telegrams and memos during the duration of the project, and the Browns were often intimately involved in the smallest of decisions, from the color of a bathroom to the overhang of a roof. “My purposes in building this home in the modern style,” Brown wrote to Neutra in the fall of 1936, “are threefold: first I wish the home to be comfortable and convenient to live...
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...
...especially those of the Bauhaus movement. Domestic architecture reflected this influence, and the flat, linear houses of Frank Lloyd Wright, notably Fallingwater in Mill Run, Pa., and Walter Gropius’ residence in Lincoln, Mass. are perhaps the best examples of this style. Both houses were built contemporaneously with Windshield, and the three houses use much of the same structural vocabulary, due in part to the fact that Neutra, an Austrian emigré, worked under Wright during the 1920s...
...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 graphite renderings of interior spaces hang near a large axonmetric view of the dining...
...gallery also shows furniture from Alvar Aalto, a furniture designer from whom the Browns comissioned 85 pieces to place in Windshield. Working from the tradition of the Swedish Modern school, Aalto’s designs look almost commonplace today—a testament to his lasting influence on the world of furniture design. His simple wooden chair is upholstered in a wild zebra print, a fabric the Browns selected from Elsa Gullberg, a Swedish textile artist who was also a member of the modern school. The bright blue floor that the furniture is placed upon is also symbolic?...