Main entry:

Roth, Harriet (Art historian), author, editor.

Title & Author:

Richard Neutra : the story of the Berlin houses 1920-1924 / editor, Harriet Roth ; translations, Paul Bewicke.

Publication:

Berlin : Hatje Cantz Verlag GmbH, [2019]

Description:

301 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 28 cm

Notes:
Translated from the German.
Previously published in German under title: Richard Neutra in Berlin.
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction -- Richard Neutra. Childhood and youth -- Friendship with the Freud family -- Viennese cultural life -- Neutra's early encounters with architecture -- Studying under Adolf Loos -- First encounter with Frank Lloyd Wright -- Wartime experiences -- Initial professional experience in Switzerland -- In Berlin with Ernst L. Freud -- Lukendwalde -- The Lukenwalde Waldfriedhof -- Collaboration with Arthur Korn in Berlin -- At Erich Mendelson's architectural practice -- The Zehlendorf houses 1920-1924. The investor Adolf Sommerfield -- Building specifications: plans -- Colour -- The revolving stage -- Mendelsohn and Neutra -- The Zehlendorf houses' first residents. The Wilinskis in no. 85 -- The Loewys in no. 87 -- The Kunzes in no. 89 -- The Chajes in no. 91 -- Off to America -- Closing remarks.

Summary:

Mention of the name Richard Neutra conjures the light-flooded bungalows that characterize the architectural style of the West Coast around Los Angeles. Because he is so closely associated with Los Angeles, it is sometimes overlooked that Neutra's career actually began in the Berlin-Zehlendorf neighborhood in the early 1920s. And yet these houses in Zehlendorf represent a fascinating phase in Neutra's work. With their complex color schemes and extravagant interior design, they reveal themselves to be more than just experimental and radically innovative designs. Indeed, these lesser-known buildings already hint at elements that Neutra would take up again in his future projects. Richard Neutra in Berlin allows for a long-overdue, rightful reassessment of Neutra's early works. Alongside historical sources, it collects countless new and unpublished documents about the houses and their first residents.

ISBN:

9783775745154 (hardbound)
3775745157 (hardbound)

Subject:

Neutra, Richard Joseph, 1892-1970.
Architects United States Biography.
Architecture, Domestic Germany Berlin History 20th century.
Architecture Germany Berlin History.
Architecture, Modern 20th century History.
Architectes États-Unis Biographies.
Architecture Allemagne Berlin Histoire.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Architecture, Domestic Germany History 20th century.
Architecture History. Germany.
Architecture, Modern History. 20th century.
Architects.
Architecture.
Architecture, Domestic.
Architecture, Modern.
Buildings.
Zehlendorf (Berlin, Germany) Buildings, structures, etc.
Germany Berlin.
United States.
Germany Berlin Zehlendorf.
Berlin (Germany) Buildings, structures, etc.

Form/genre:

Biography
Biographies.
History.

Added entries:

Bewicke, Paul, translator.

Story of the Berlin houses

Holdings:

Location: Library main 304801
Call No.: BIB 250517
Status: Available