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Finding Aid for the Richard Neutra drawings, 1928-1949
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Title: Richard Neutra drawings
Identifier/Call Number: 0000318
Contributing Institution:
Architecture and Design Collection, Art, Design & Architecture Museum
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
6.0 Linear feet
(2 flat file folders)
Date (inclusive): 1928-1949
creator:
Neutra, Richard Joseph, 1892-1970
Open for use by qualified researchers.
Richard Neutra drawings, Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University of California,
Santa Barbara.
Richard Josef Neutra was born on April 8, 1892 in Vienna. Neutra studied at the Technical University, Vienna in Austria and
graduated in 1917. He was the city architect for Luckenwalde and from 1921 to 1922 was a draftsman for the architect Erich
Mendelsohn, before relocating to the United States in 1923. In the United States, Neutra participated in Frank Lloyd Wright’s
Taliesin Fellowship in Spring Green, Wisconsin. By the end of 1924, Neutra had moved to Los Angeles, California and began
collaborating with Rudolph Schindler. The two architects became partners in 1926 in a firm they called Architectural Group
for Industry and Commerce, which dissolved in 1927. By 1928, Neutra was working independently in Los Angeles until 1970, the
year he died. His most productive years were during the 1930s and 40s. Neutra, in the last decade of his life, worked with
his son Dion.
The Richard Neutra drawings span 6 linear feet and date from 1928 to 1949. The collection consists of two flat file folders
of drawings in the form of reprographic copies documenting the Dr. P. M. Lovell house (Los Angeles, Calif.) and the Charles
C. Chase house (Santa Barbara, Calif.).
Related Archival Materials note
Esther McCoy research papers, Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University of California,
Santa Barbara.
ADC Study collection, Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University of California, Santa
Barbara.
Richard and Dion Neutra Papers (Collection Number 1179). Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library,
UCLA.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Neutra, Richard Joseph, 1892-1970
Architectural drawings
Blueprints
Reprographic copies