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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
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Preferred Citation note
Richard
Neutra
drawings, Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University of California, Santa Barbara.
Biographical/Historical note
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.
Scope and Content note
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