Richard Neutra
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| Born |
Richard Joseph Neutra April 8, 1892 Leopoldstadt, Vienna |
| Died | April 16, 1970 (aged 78) Wuppertal, Germany |
| Occupation | Architect |
| Awards |
Wilhelm Exner Medal (1959) AIA Gold Medal (1977) |
Richard Joseph Neutra (German pronunciation: [ˌʁiçaʁt ˈnɔʏ̯tʁaː], English /ˈnɔɪtrə/; April 8, 1892 – April 16, 1970) was an Austrian-American architect. Living and building for the majority of his career in Southern California, he came to be considered among the most important modernist architects.
Neutra was born in Leopoldstadt, the 2nd district of Vienna, Austria Hungary, on April 8, 1892 into a wealthy Jewish family. His Jewish-Hungarian father Samuel Neutra (1844–1920) was a proprietor of a metal foundry, and his mother, Elizabeth "Betty" Glaser Neutra (1851–1905) was a member of the IKG Wien. Richard had two brothers who also emigrated to the United States, and a sister who married in Vienna.
Neutra attended the Sophiengymnasium in Vienna until 1910, and he studied under Adolf Loos at the Vienna University of Technology (1910–1918). He was a student of Max Fabiani and Karl Mayreder. In 1912 he undertook a study trip to Italy and Balkans with Ernst Ludwig Freud (son of Sigmund Freud).
After World War I Neutra went to Switzerland where he worked with the landscape architect Gustav Ammann. In 1921 he served briefly as city architect in the German town of Luckenwalde, and later in the same year he joined the office of Erich Mendelsohn in Berlin. Neutra contributed to the firm’s competition entry for a new commercial centre for Haifa, Palestine (1922), and to the Zehlendorf housing project in Berlin (1923). He married Dione Niedermann, the daughter of an architect, in 1922. They had three sons, Frank L ( 1924-2008), Dion ( 1926-) an architect and his father's partner and Raymond Richard ( 1939-) a physician and environmental epidemiologist.
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