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Richard Neutra's Windshield House | 
| Author: Dietrich Neumann
Creators: Professor Dietrich Neumann, Joyce Botelho, J. Carter Brown, Professor Sarah Williams Goldhagen, Thomas S. Hines, Thomas Michie
Publisher: Yale University Press
Category: Book
List Price: $24.00
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 1022340
Media: Paperback
Pages: 120
Number Of Items: 1
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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Product Description
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.
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Richard NeutraA*s Windshield House June 14, 2002
Michael Webb (London, England > Los Angeles, USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
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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