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Richard Neutra


Schindler and Richard formed a partnership that lasted until 1930, when the two had a falling out. While they were associated, Richard provided the landscape design for a number of Schindler's architectural projects. These included the How and Lovell Beach Houses. As partners and independent practitioners, each designer contributed greatly to the development of modern architecture in southern California. Los Angeles' mild climate, appetite for experimental lifestyle and sizeable population of European émigrés, made it the center of European Modernism in the United States during the inter-war years. As a key player in this phenomenon, Richard's many works of architecture, his numerous lectures, and voluminous written documents, including articles and books in the 1920s and 1930s, made him into "one of the world's best and most influential moderns- , according to a 1949 issue of Time Magazine, in which he was named "Man of the Year."".
             The Neutras' move to Los Angeles was significant for Richard since he believed that its moderate climate was conducive to an architecture that was integrated with landscape and in harmony with nature. His son, architect Dion Neutra, has stated, "California gave him [Richard] a chance to get close to nature. It was a closeness which stimulated him until the end of his life."" This closeness with nature is apparent throughout the body of Richard's work. According to landscape historian David Streatfield, "Neutra merged his acute sensitivity to the local landscape with the European modernist tradition of treating nature as mere backdrop to man-made architecture with the soft forms of nature proving a contrast to machine-age materials. In the Lovell Health House (Los Angeles, 1929), for example, Richard took advantage of the site's steep terrain by designing a multi-level home that clung to the hillside, creating extensive valley views.


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