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    Richard Neutra's Windshield House
    Richard Neutra's Windshield House

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    Creators: Joyce Botelho, J. Carter Brown, Sarah Williams Goldhagen, Thomas S. Hines, Thomas Michie, Dietrich Neumann
    Publisher: Yale University Press
    Category: Book

    List Price: $24.00
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    Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars 1 reviews
    Sales Rank: 348964

    Media: Paperback
    Number Of Items: 1
    Pages: 120
    Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
    Dimensions (in): 11.5 x 8.3 x 0.5

    ISBN: 0300092032
    Dewey Decimal Number: 728.37092
    EAN: 9780300092035
    ASIN: 0300092032

    Publication Date: November 1, 2001
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    Condition: Light shelf or reading wear only. No tears or marks in text. We always ship same or next day!

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    In 1936, John Nicholas and Anne Brown commissioned Richard Neutra, the great Vienna-born architect, to design a summer house for them on Fishers Island, New York. Completed in 1938, Windshield (named for its large expanses of glass) was Neutra's most significant residential building outside Los Angeles and the only one on the East Coast. A striking example of International Style architecture that featured many modern innovations, including two of R. Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion bathrooms, the house was severely damaged by a hurricane only weeks after its completion. The Browns rebuilt the house and continued to occupy it until 1959. The house was destroyed by fire in 1975. This engaging publication, written by prominent scholars of contemporary architecture and design, is the first to focus on the collaborative design process for Windshield, as revealed by the extensive Brown/Neutra correspondence, as well as on its role in modern American architecture. J. Carter Brown has contributed personal recollections about growing up in Windshield. This book will accompany an exhibition that opens at the Harvard University Art Museums in November 2001, and will then travel to the RISD Museum, the Octagon Museum of the American Architectural Foundation, and the Armand Hammer Museum at UCLA.


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    4 out of 5 stars Richard NeutraA*s Windshield House   June 14, 2002
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    An illuminating miniature on a legendary house that was almost destroyed by the New England hurricane of 1938 and succumbed to fire in 1973. It was NeutraOs grandestNand most unlikelyNcommission: a summer house for a famous Rhode Island family on Fishers Island. John Nicholas Brown picked Neutra after seeing the MoMA exhibition on modern architecture that included the Lovell Health House. Neumann, a professor of architecture at Brown University, recently curated an exhibition on the house that may eventually be shown in LA. Meanwhile we can enjoy his entertaining account of how the patrician client and progressive architect corresponded and faced off, and the camel that resulted from the collaboration of this odd couple. (Michael Webb is the book reviewer for LA Architect magazine.)


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