23 Facts About Richard Neutra

Richard Joseph Neutra was an Austrian-American architect.

Richard Neutra's Jewish-Hungarian father Samuel Neutra, was a proprietor of a metal foundry, and his mother, Elizabeth "Betty" Glaser Neutra was a member of the IKG Wien.

Richard Neutra had two brothers, who emigrated to the United States, and a sister, Josephine Theresia "Pepi" Weixlgartner, an artist who married the Austrian art historian Arpad Weixlgartner and who later emigrated to Sweden.

Richard Neutra was just a small town clerk in Vienna, but then he became his commander.

Richard Neutra took a leave in 1917 to return to the Technische Hochschule to take his final examinations.

Richard Neutra contributed to the firm's competition entry for a new commercial center for Haifa, Palestine, and to the Zehlendorf housing project in Berlin.

Richard Neutra married Dione Niedermann, the daughter of an architect, in 1922.

Richard Neutra moved to the United States by 1923 and became a naturalized citizen in 1929.

Richard Neutra worked briefly for Frank Lloyd Wright before accepting an invitation from Rudolf Schindler, a close friend from his university days, to work and live communally in Schindler's Kings Road House in California.

Schindler and Richard Neutra would go on to collaborate on an entry for the League of Nations Competition ; in the same year, they formed a firm with the planner Carol Aronovici, called the Architectural Group for Industry and Commerce.

In 1932, Richard Neutra was included in the seminal MoMA exhibition on modern architecture, curated by Philip Johnson and Henry-Russell Hitchcock.

From 1943 to 1944, Richard Neutra served as a visiting professor of design at Bennington College in Bennington, Vermont.

In 1949 Neutra formed a partnership with Robert E Alexander that lasted until 1958, which finally gave him the opportunity to design larger commercial and institutional buildings.

In 1965, Richard Neutra formed a partnership with his son Dion Richard Neutra.

Between 1960 and 1970, Richard Neutra created eight villas in Europe, four in Switzerland, three in Germany, and one in France.

Richard Neutra's work was part of the architecture event in the art competition at the 1932 Summer Olympics.

Richard Joseph Neutra died on 16 April 1970, at the age of 78.

Richard Neutra was known for the attention he gave to defining the real needs of his clients, regardless of the size of the project, in contrast to other architects eager to impose their artistic vision on a client.

Richard Neutra sometimes used detailed questionnaires to discover his client's needs, much to their surprise.

Richard Neutra's domestic architecture was a blend of art, landscape, and practical comfort.

The Richard Neutra Office Building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

In 1980, Richard Neutra's widow donated the Van der Leeuw House, then valued at $207,500, to California State Polytechnic University, Pomona to be used by the university's College of Environmental Design faculty and students.

In 2011, the Richard Neutra-designed Kronish House at 9439 Sunset Boulevard in Beverly Hills sold for $12.8 million.