Hines, Thomas S.

Richard Neutra and the search for modern architecture : a biography and history / Thomas S. Hines - Berkeley, CA : University of California Press , 1994, c1982 - 356 p. : illus. ; 26 cm

Introduction Neutra and Modernism 3 (6) Genesis 1892-1914 9 (16) Trial 1914-1923 25 (20) Exploration 1923-1926 45 (24) Breakthrough 1926-1930 69 (24) Confirmation 1930-1932 93 (16) Modernity 1932-1940 109 (52) Community 1932-1942 161 (32) Transition 1941-1949 193 (30) Crisis 1950-1960 223 (28) Survival 1950-1970 251 (38) Eclipse 1950-1980 289 (14) Appendix A Neutra, Schindler, and the Lovell Health House 303 (6) Appendix B The Buildings of Richard Neutra 309 (10) Notes 319 (20) On Sources 339 (4) Illustration Credits 343 (2) Index

The story of Richard Neutra's life is, in many ways, the story of modern architecture. He experienced the buoyant struggles of the movement's early years, the heady excesses of its mid-century ascendancy, and the strains of its slow demise. In this study, Thomas Hines explores the efforts of Neutra and his modernist contemporaries to find the forms that would best express the meaning of the twentieth century.


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Neutra, Richard Joseph (1892-1970)


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