Life and shape / by Richard Neutra.

Main entry:

Neutra, Richard Joseph, 1892-1970, author.

Title & Author:

Life and shape / by Richard Neutra.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Description:

viii, 374 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-368) and index.
Puzzlement through life -- Hand sketches -- Early influences -- Exotic training -- Finding a companion -- White hope-U.S.A.? -- Programs and problems -- Our fateful setting.
Puzzlement through life. Emergence and unfolding -- Hand sketches. Glimpses into a manifold world -- Early influences. From floor to clouds ; Parents and siblings ; Physician and architect ; Impressive clinician ; Reformer and his community ; Unequal eyes ; Teacher and apprentice -- Exotic training. In a far-distant fortress ; Sea power in silhouette ; Unknown Europe ; Tropical malaria -- Finding a companion. From Albania and Slovakia to Switzerland ; Encounter and renewal in Vienna ; Brandenburg, a wedding, a household ; Berliner Tageblatt -- White hope--U.S.A.?. Loos, Sullivan, Wright ; Wright's prairie Chicago ; How America builds ; "California calls you" ; Health House, vintage 1927 ; Through Asia and Africa ; Back to Europe via the Orient ; Europe-U.S.A.--1929 ; The Van der Leeuw house -- Programs and problems. Budget, mirror of destiny ; Pain, despite success ; From a past battlefield to a future cosmopolitan scene -- Our fateful setting. ; Human cities ; Epilogue to a prelude.

Summary:

"One of the world's foremost living architects sums up his beginnings, his thoughts, and his reflections on future living and building, and tells of the forces that shaped him and his awareness of the importance of physical surroundings to the mind and to the spirit."--Dust jacket.

Subject:

Neutra, Richard Joseph, 1892-1970.
Architects United States Biography.
Architectes États-Unis Biographies.
Architects.
United States.

Form/genre:

Autobiography
Autobiographies.
Biographies.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 149588
Call No.: NA44.N497.A2 1962
Status: Available

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