Neutra, Richard J., Architect (Practice)

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Gregory Ain, Robert Louis Barnett, Benno Fischer, Donald Giffen, Harwell Hamilton Harris, Serge N. Koschin, Ragnhilde Liljedahl, Thaddeus Longstreth, Robert Paul Meyerhof, Richard Josef Neutra, Raphael Simon Soriano, Joseph Allen Stein, Zelma Gussin Wilson, Charles Day Woodford

Operated in Los Angeles, CA, from 1927 until his death in 1970; the firm was known in 1960 as "Richard J. Neutra, FAIA."

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Buildings and other works

NameDateCityState
Auerbacher House, Redlands, CA1953RedlandsCA
Bailey, Stuart G., House, Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, CA1947-1948Los AngelesCA
Bald, Howard, House, Ojai, CA1941OjaiCA
Barsha, Leon and Helen, House, North Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA1937Los AngelesCA
Beard, William, House, Altadena, CA1935AltadenaCA
Beckstrand House, Palos Verdes Estates, CA1940Palos Verdes EstatesCA
Berger House, Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA1939Los AngelesCA
Branch House, Los Angeles, CALos AngelesCA
Brown House, Bel-Air, Los Angeles, CA1955Los AngelesUS
Brown, J.N., House, Fishers Island, NY1936Fishers IslandNY
Buff, Conrad, II, and Mary Marsh, Studio and Garage, Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, CA1928Los AngelesCA
California Military Academy, Baldwin Hills, Los Angeles, CA1936Los AngelesCA
Casa Ebelin Bucerius, Navegna, Ticino, Switzerland1962-1966NavegnaTicino
Case Study House #06, Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, CA1946-1948Los AngelesCA
Catalina Ticket Office, Los Angeles, CA1933Los AngelesCA
Channel Heights War Housing, San Pedro, Los Angeles, CA1943San Pedro, Los AngelesCA
Clark, John Paul and DeVee, House, Pasadena, CA1957PasadenaCA
Crescent Professional Building, Los Angeles, CALos AngelesCA
Davey House, Monterey, CAMontereyCA
Davis, Frank and Kathryn, House, Bakersfield, CA1937BakersfieldCA
De Graaf, Jan, House, Dunthorpe, OR1940DunthorpeOR
De Schulthess, Alfred, House, Cubanacan Playa, Havana, Cuba1956Havana
Diatom Prefabricated House Project1923
Elkay Apartments, Westwood, Los Angeles, CALos AngelesCA
Elysian Park Heights Public Housing Project, Chavez Ravine, Los Angeles, CA1949-1953Los AngelesCA
Garden Grove Community Church #1, Garden Grove, CA1961Garden GroveCA
Goodson House, Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles, CA 1948Los AngelesCA
Greenberg House, Westwood, Los Angeles, CA1949Los AngelesCA
Grelling House, Ascona, Switzerland1955AsconaTicino
Haefely House, Long Beach, CA1952-1953Long BeachCA
Hammerman House, Los Angeles, CA1954Los AngelesCA
Hansch, Corwin H. and Gloria J., House, Claremont, CA1955ClaremontCA
Hinds, J.D., House, Mount Washington, Los Angeles, CA1951Los AngelesCA
Holiday House Motel, Escondido Beach, Malibu, CA1950MalibuCA
How, James Eads, House, Silver Lake, Los Angeles, CA1925-1925Los AngelesCA
Jardinette Apartments, Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA1927Los AngelesCA
Kahn, Sydney, House, Telegraph Hill, San Francisco, CA1939-1940San FranciscoCA
Kaufman, Edward A., House, Westwood, Los Angeles, CA1936-1937Los AngelesCA
Kaufmann, Edgar J., House, Palm Springs, CA1946Palm SpringsCA
Kelton Apartments, Westwood, Los Angeles, CA1941-1942Los AngelesCA
Koblick, Harry, House, Silver Lake, Los Angeles, CA1936Los AngelesCA
Kronish House, Beverly Hills, CA1955Beverly HillsCA
Kun, Josef, House, Los Angeles, CA1936
Laemmle Theatres Company, Main Office Building #1, Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA1933Los AngelesCA
Landfair Apartments, Westwood, Los Angeles, CA1936-1937Los AngelesCA
Lewin House, Santa Monica, CA1938Santa MonicaCA
Los Altos Orchard Houses, Los Altos, CA1936
Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), Bell Avenue Elementary School, Bell, CA1934-1935BellCA
Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), Emerson, Ralph Waldo, Junior High School, Westwood, Los Angeles, CA1937Los AngelesCA
Lovell, Philip and Leah, House, Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, CA1928-1929Los AngelesCA
Maslon, Samuel and Luella House, Rancho Mirage, CA 1962Rancho MirageCA
Maxwell, Charles and Sybil House, Brentwood, Los Angeles, CALos AngelesCA
McIntosh House, Los Angeles, CA1939Los AngelesCA
Mensendieck House, Palm Springs, CA1937Palm SpringsCA
Miller, Grace Lewis, House, Palm Springs, CA1936Palm SpringsCA
Montecito House, Montecito, CAMontecitoCA
Moore, James D., House, Ojai, CA1953-1954OjaiCA
Nesbitt, John, House, Brentwood, Los Angeles, CA1942Los AngelesCA
Northwestern Mutual Fire Association, Offices, WIlshire Center, Los Angeles, CA1950-1951Los AngelesCA
O'Brien, J.C., House, Shreveport, LA1951ShreveportLA
O'Hara House
Oxley House, La Jolla, San Diego, CA1958La JollaCA
Perkins House, Pasadena, CA1955PasadenaCA
Plywood Model Experimental House, Westwood, Los Angeles, CA1936Los AngelesCA
Rourke House, Beverly Hills, CABeverly HillsCA
Rush City Air Transfer Project1930
Scholts Advertising Company Building, Los Angeles, CALos AngelesCA
Serulnic, George and Dorothy, House, La Crescenta, CA1954La CrescentaCA
Slavin House, Santa Barbara, CA1958Los AngelesCA
Sorrell, Mr. and Mrs. Maury, House, Shoshone, CAShoshoneCA
Strathmore Apartments, Westwood, Los Angeles, CA1937Los AngelesCA
Texas House, Dallas, TX1937DallasTX
Tremaine, Warren Draper and Katharine Williams, House, Montecito, CA1950MontecitoCA
Troxell, Mr. and Mrs. Sidney R., House, Pacific Palisades, CALos AngelesCA
United States Government, Department of State, U.S. Embassy, Karachi, PakistanKarachiSindh
United States Government, Department of the Interior, National Park Service (NPS), Gettysburg National Military Park Visitor Center, Cyclorama Building, Gettysburg, PA1961GettysburgPA
Universal Pictures Company, Incorporated, Office Building, Los Angeles, CA1930Los AngelesCA
Van Cleef House, Holmby Hills, Los Angeles, CALos AngelesCA
Ward-Berger, North Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA1939Los AngelesCA
Watts Housing Development, Watts, Los Angeles, CA1941Los AngelesCA
Wirin House, Los Feliz, Los Angeles, CA1949Los AngelesCA
van der Leeuw (VDL) Research House #1, Silver Lake, Los Angeles, CA1931-1933Los AngelesCA
von Sternberg, Josef, House, Northridge, Los Angeles, CA 1935Los AngelesCA

Publications

"Richard Neutra", AIA Journal, 66: 3, 52-61, 1977-03. "Trends and Topics of the Times....", American Architect, CXLVII: 2639, 60, 1935-11. Ford, Katherine Morrow, American House Today, 81, 1951. "81 New Houses: Two bedrooms, garage designed for conversion to studio", Architectural Forum, 74: 4, 230-231, 04/1941. Neutra, Richard J., "The Significance of the Setting", Architectural Forum, 91: 3, 58, 9/1949. "Neutra designs a simple, but deluxe hotel with a grandstand view of ocean beach", Architectural Forum, 91: 1, 104-105, 7/1949. "A modern house uses its setting to help provide luxurious living", Architectural Forum, 91: 52-58, 1949-09. "Landfair Apartments, Westwood, Cal.", Architectural Forum, 67: 110, 1937-08. "Contemporary details-windows by William Wilson Wurster; R.M. Schindler; Richard J. Neutra; Edward D. Stone; Courtney Stewart and Robert Hansen, archts. and Lockwood de Forest, designer", Architectural Forum, 66: 346-348, 378-381, 04/1937. "Landfair Dwellings, Apartment House, Westwood, Cal.", Architectural Forum, 66: 399-402, 1937-05. Alexander, Robert E., "Letters", Architectural Forum, 117: 20, 07/1962. "Entrance Studio of Conrad Buff", Architectural Record, 438, 11/1930. "Winner of Honor Award, Southern California A.I.A. Awards, for Residence of Mr. and Mrs. Warren Tremaine, Montecito", Architectural Record, 13, 32-34, 1952-01. "Imaginative version of the row house: Landfair Apartments, West Los Angeles, Cal", Architectural Record, 96: 91, 1944-10. "Modern California Houses", Architectural Record, 133: 1, 62B, 01/1963. Kolleeny, Jane F., "Both stimulating and calming, water in a residential landscape connects shelter to the outdoors", Architectural Record, 192: 7, 167, 07/2004. "Sea-Land Transfer", Architectural Record, 100: 74-87, 9/1946. "Announcements", Architectural Record, 72: 1, 18, 1932-07. "The Demonstration Health-House, Los Angeles", Architectural Record, 67: 5, 433-439, May 1930. Neutra, Richard J., "Terminals?--Transfer!", Architectural Record, 68: 2, 99-104, 08/1930. Lamprecht, Barbara, "Historic Maslon House; inexplicably destroyed by new owner", Architectural Review, 17-18, 07/2002. "Kaufmann Desert House", Architecture + Urbanism (A + U) Special Issue, 3, 240-253, 271, 275, 3/2000. Oshima, Ken Tadashi, Frampton, Kenneth, "Dialogue with Kenneth Frampton", Architecture + Urbanism (A + U) Special Issue, 3, 138, 2000. Jodidio, Philip, Architecture Now!, 364-373, 2001. Robinson, Cervin, Herschman, Joel, Architecture Transformed, 148, 1987. "Santa-Barbara: résidence Tremaine", Architecture d'Aujourd Hui, 20: 31-35, 1950-07. Gebhard, David, Winter, Robert, "Koblick House, 1937", Architecture in Los Angeles A Compleat Guide, 188, 1985. Hines, Thomas S., Architecture of the Sun: Los Angeles Modernism 1900-1970, 388-389, 2010. Hines, Thomas S., Architecture of the Sun: Los Angeles Modernism 1900-1970, 404-405, 2010. Hines, Thomas S., Architecture of the Sun: Los Angeles Modernism 1900-1970, 379, 2010. Hines, Thomas S., Architecture of the Sun: Los Angeles Modernism 1900-1970, 522-523, 2010. Hines, Thomas S., Architecture of the Sun: Los Angeles Modernism 1900-1970, 402, 2010. Gassel P., Leuthauser, G., Architektur des 20. Jahrhunderts, 222-223, 1990. "Villa de schulthess a l'Avana, Cuba", Architettura: cronache e storia, 4: 176-183, 7/1958. "Honor award: Residence for W. Tremaine", Arts and Architecture, 69: 30, 1952-01. Arts and Architecture, 04/1952. "Neutra California houses for open-air living", Best in 20th Century Architecture, 158-159, 162-163, 1964. "Neutra California houses for open-air living", Best in 20th Century Architecture, 160-162, 1964. "Neutra California houses for open-air living", Best in 20th Century Architecture, 160, 1964. "Neutra California houses for open-air living", Best in 20th Century Architecture, 161, 1964. Mock, Elizabeth, Built in USA, 1932-1944, 68-71, 1945. Mock, Elizabeth, Built in USA, 1932-1944, 72-73, 1945. Hitchcock, Henry-Russell, Drexler, Arthur, Built in USA: Post-War Architecture, 90-91, 1952. "VDL Research House shown in Oldsmobile advertisement, 1936", Collier’s Magazine, 1936. "House at Beverly Hills, California", Decorative Art in Modern Interiors, 52: 16-19, 1962-1963. Wells, Ted, "Modern Patrons", Echoes, 35, 50-52, 07/16/2008. Rifkind, Carole, Field Guide to American Architecture, 110-111, 1980. Architectural Record, Forty Years of American Architecture, 6, 1979. "Residence, Warren Tremaine, Montecito (Calif.)", Forum (Amsterdam), 9-10, 368-369, 1954. Leuthäuser, Gabriele, Gössel, Peter, Functional Architecture, 391, 1990. Frampton, Kenneth, "Richard Neutra, Lovell Health House, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.", GA Document Special Issue #3 Modern Architecture 1851-1945, 330-301, 1983. Frampton, Kenneth, "Richard Neutra, Sydney Kahn Residence, Telegraph Hill, San Francisco, California, U.S.A.", GA Document Special Issue #3 Modern Architecture 1851-1945, 441, 1983. "R. J. Neutra: Kaufmann 'Desert House' and Tremaine House in Montecito", Global Architecture (GA), 8: 1974. "R. J. Neutra: Kaufmann Desert House and Tremaine House in Montecito", Global Architecture (GA), 8: 1974. Seidler, Harry, Grand Tour, 524, 2003. Seidler, Harry, Grand Tour, 524, 2003. Seidler, Harry, Grand Tour, 524, 2003. Gebhard, David, Winter, Robert, Guide to Architecture in San Francisco and Northern California, 58, 1985. Rodríguez, Eduardo Luis, Havana Guide: Modern Architecture, 1925-1965, 54-55, 2000. Samson, Miles David, Hut Pavilion Shrine: Architectural Archetypes in Mid-Century Modernism, 191, 2015. Illustrated Encyclopedia of Architects and Architecture, 114, 1991. Fiske, J., "Urbanity in the Wooded Foothills; Neutra's House for W. Tremaine", Interiors, 111: 80-87, 1951-10. Rodriguez, Eduardo Luis, "Our man in Havana: Richard Neutra's incursion into Cuba's tropical environment", Interiors, 153: 7, 42-43, 7/1994. "Honors", Journal of the American Institiute of Architects, 7: 4, 225, 5/1947. "Southern California Chapter's Honor Awards", Journal of the American Institute of Architects, 7: 2, 77, 02/1947. "Southern California Chapter's Honor Awards", Journal of the American Institute of Architects, 7: 2, 74-79, 02/1947. "Advanced to Fellowship in 1947", Journal of the American Institute of Architects, 7: 5, 238-239, 05/1947. "Southern California Chapter's Honor Awards", Journal of the American Institute of Architects, 7: 2, 74-79, 02/1947. "Honors", Journal of the American Institute of Architects, 7: 5, 225, 05/1947. "Honors", Journal of the American Institute of Architects, 7: 5, 225, 05/1947. Simonds, John Ormsbee, Landscape Architecture: The Shaping of Man's Natural Environment, 1961. Balistreri, Emiliano, Le Corbusier, Neutra, Samona, Scarpa, Trincanato, Wright e Venezia: documenti, progetti, scritti, testimonianze dall'Archivio Trincanato, 2002. Neutra, Richard Josef, Life and Shape, 1962. Gebhard, David, Winter, Robert, Los Angeles An Architectural Guide, 4, 1994. Gebhard, David, Winter, Robert, "Landfair Apartments", Los Angeles An Architectural Guide, 108-109, 1994. Gebhard, David, Winter, Robert, Los Angeles An Architectural Guide, 144, 1994. Gebhard, David, Winter, Robert, Los Angeles An Architectural Guide, 164, 1994. Gebhard, David, Winter, Robert, Los Angeles An Architectural Guide, 108-109, 1994. Gebhard, David, Winter, Robert, Los Angeles An Architectural Guide, 108, 1994. Gebhard, David, Winter, Robert, Los Angeles An Architectural Guide, 108, 1994. Gebhard, David, Winter, Robert, Los Angeles An Architectural Guide, 108, 1994. Gebhard, David, Winter, Robert, Los Angeles An Architectural Guide, 110, 1994. Gebhard, David, Winter, Robert, Los Angeles An Architectural Guide, 111, 1994. Gebhard, David, Winter, Robert, "Beckstrand House", Los Angeles An Architectural Guide, 56, 1994. Gebhard, David, Winter, Robert, "Ralph Waldo Emerson Junior High School Building, 1937", Los Angeles An Architectural Guide, 112, 1994. Gebhard, David, Winter, Robert, "Bell Avenue School (Corona School) ", Los Angeles An Architectural Guide, 283, 1994. Gebhard, David, Winter, Robert, Los Angeles An Architectural Guide, 111, 1994. Gebhard, David, Winter, Robert, Los Angeles An Architectural Guide, 172-173, 1994. Knight, Christopher, "Building Up Neutra After Tearing Him Down", Los Angeles Times, B9, 1992-04-09. Kaplan, Tracy, "L.A. Seeks State Grant to Renovate Landfair Apartments in Westwood", Los Angeles Times, 2W, 1987-01-25. "Eight-Unit Structure", Los Angeles Times, 1, 6, 1936-09-20. "Good Design Exhibit Nears", Los Angeles Times, D6, 6/28/1953. Silverstein, Stuart, "Henry Singleton, Co-Founder of Teledyne, Dies; Obituary: Man who led the conglomerate for three decades was known for his technical skills and prowess on Wall Street", Los Angeles Times, 1, 09/02/1999. Oliver, Myrna, "Obituary: Benno Fischer; Architect Survived Nazi Camps, Worked on Holocaust Museum", Los Angeles Times, 6, 9/26/2000. Gebhard, David, Winter, Robert, "McIntosh House, 1939", Los Angeles: An Architectural Guide, 178, 1994. Eckardt, Wolf Von, "Richard J. Neutra", Mid-Century Architecture in America, 201, 1961. Mid-Century Architecture in America, 40, 1961. Eckardt, Wolf Von, "Richard J. Neutra", Mid-Century Architecture in America, 204-205, 1961. Eckardt, Wolf Von, "Richard J. Neutra", Mid-Century Architecture in America, 203, 1961. Eckardt, Wolf Von, "Richard J. Neutra", Mid-Century Architecture in America, 203, 1961. Tevlin, Jon, "Razing of historic house raises California hackles", Minneapolis Star Tribune, 1A, 04/20/2002. Ford, James, Ford, Katherine Morrow, "House for William Beard, Altadena", Modern House in America, 84-86, 1940. Roth, Alfred, "Experimental School", New Architecture, 105-114, 1948. Fowler, Glenn, "Imaginative Use of Steel Wins Building Design Awards", New York Times, 269, 06/03/1962. Dunning, Brad, "A Destruction Site", New York Times, 67, col. 1, 04/21/2002. Bernstein, Fred A., "That Tear-Down Could Be a Haul-Away", New York Times, F4, 01/05/2006. "Neutra Wins $500 Prize", New York Times, 39, 1938-12-22. Harris, Harwell H., "AIA gold medal, first in five years awarded to Neutra", North Carolina Architect, 8-11, 3/1977. "Departamentos "Landfair" en California : arq. Richard J. Neutra", Nuestra Arquitectura, 26-31, 1938-01. "Three privately developed apartment houses Language", Pencil Points, 25: 51-56, 1944-01. "Houses to Stimulate the Senses", Premium, 2, 92-93, 2001. Weidert, Werner, Private Houses An International Survey, 44-49, 1967. Weidert, Werner, Private Houses An International Survey, 32-35, 1967. "Notices: Competitions", Progressive Architecture, 28: 8, 12, 08/1947. Sarnitz, August, R.M. Schindler Architect 1887-1953, 87-88, 181, 1988. McCoy, Esther, Richard Neutra, 1960. McCoy, Esther, Richard Neutra, 1960. McCoy, Esther, Richard Neutra, 1960. McCoy, Esther, Richard Neutra, 1960. McCoy, Esther, Richard Neutra, 1960. McCoy, Esther, Richard Neutra, 1960. Hines, Thomas S., Richard Neutra and the Search for Modern Architecture, 125, 1982. Hines, Thomas S., Richard Neutra and the Search for Modern Architecture, 124, 1982. Hines, Thomas S., Richard Neutra and the Search for Modern Architecture, 125-126, 1982. Hines, Thomas S., Richard Neutra and the Search for Modern Architecture: A Biography and History, 1982. Leet, Stephen, Richard Neutra's Miller House, 2004. Levinson, Maxwell, "The Architecture of Richard J. Neutra", Shelter, 3: 22-43, 1938-03. "Return to the Future", Sky, 18-19, 2009-02. Hines, Thomas S., "Neutra's Vienna: the evolution of an architect", Skyline, 16-17, 05/1982. Honnold, Douglas, Southern California Architecture 1769-1956, 26, 1956. Marmorstein, Gary, "Steel and Slurry: Dr. Philip M. Lovell, Architectural Patron", Southern California Quarterly, 84: 3-4, 241-270, 2002. "Pueblo del Rio Housing Project plans", Southwest Builder and Contractor, 96, col 2, 07/05/1940. Giedion, Sigfried, Space, Time and Architecture, 347, 1965. Neutra, Richard Josef, Survival Through Design, 1954. Roth, Alfred, The New Architecture, 105-114, 1948. "Homes Inside Out", Time, 49: 59-60, 02/03/1947. McCoy, Esther, Vienna to Los Angeles: Two Journeys, 1979. Aloi, Roberto, Villa nel Mondo, 24-30, 1961. Houseley, Laura, "Cal Couture", Wallpaper, 22: 101-104, 10/1999. "Landhaus in Montecito: Santa Barbara, Kalifornien", Werk, 37: 364-369, 1950-12. Wie Baut Amerika?, 1927. "Neutra on the Roof", Zodiac, 11: 122-127, 03-04/1994.

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