Richard Neutra and the search for modern architecture / Thomas S. Hines.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hines, Thomas S.

Contributor:

Neutra, Richard Joseph, 1892-1970.

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Neutra, Richard Joseph, 1892-1970.

Neutra, Richard Joseph.

Architects--United States--Biography.

Architects.

International style (Architecture).

United States.

International style (Architecture)--United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

352 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Rizzoli, [2005, [c1982]

Summary:

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 and the heady excesses of its mid-century ascendancy. In this study, Thomas S. Hines explores the efforts of Neutra and his modernist contemporaries to find the forms that would best express the meaning of the twentieth century.

Contents:

Introduction: Neutra and Modernism 11

I Genesis 1892-1914 17

II Trial 1914-1923 39

III Exploration 1923-1926 63

IV Breakthrough 1926-1930 87

V Confirmation 1930-1932 113

VI Modernity 1932-1940 131

VII Community 1932-1942 177

VIII Transition 1941-1949 211

IX Crisis 1950-1960 245

X Survival 1950-1970 273

XI Eclipse 1950-1980 315

Appendix A The Buildings of Richard Neutra (and Associates) 332

Appendix B Neutra, Schindler, and the Lovell Health House 339

On Sources 344.

Notes:

On t.p verso -- "First English-language edition published in 1982 by Oxford University Press.

Includes bibliographical references and index (pages 347-352).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

0847827631

9780847827633

OCLC:

64392391

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