Richard Neutra's Windshield House
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| Rating | : | 4.99 (502 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0300092032 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 120 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-10-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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Granger60 said Windshield House. I enjoyed this book and reading about the history of this very ornate and unusual house. I had the honor of living at Windshield House on Fishers Island back in 1965 and 1966 and wish now I had a better understanding of the house and its history at that time. What a shame that it was destroyed by fire.. "Richard NeutraÃ*s Windshield House" according to Michael Webb. An illuminating miniature on a legendary house that was almost destroyed by the New England hurricane of 19Richard NeutraÃ*s Windshield House 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 NeutraÕs grandestÑand most unlikelyÑcommission: 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 . 8 and succumbed to fire in 197Richard NeutraÃ*s Windshield House 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 NeutraÕs grandestÑand most unlikelyÑcommission: 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 . . It was NeutraÕs grandestÑand most unlikelyÑcommission: 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
Carter Brown has contributed personal recollections about growing up in Windshield. A striking example of International Style architecture that featured many modern innovations, including two of R. 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. The house was destroyed by fire in 1975. Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion bathrooms, the house was severely damaged by a hurricane only weeks after its completion. In 1936, John Nicholas and Anne Brown commissioned Richard Neutra, the great Vienna-born architect, to design
. The handsome book contains eight color and 100 black-and-white photographs and drawings. Recommended for all architectural collections of strength. From Library Journal This book, published in connection with an exhibit at Harvard's Arthur M. It was severely damaged by a hurricane only weeks after its completion, reconstructed, and destroyed by fire in 1973. The architect was well known for his California houses and played a major role in architecture's modernist movement as early as the 1920s. Sackler Museum and the Rhode Island School of Design Museum, is the story of Windshield House, the first house built on the East Coast by Richard Neutra. While the story of a house and the owner-architect collaboration that designed it may be too specialized for many libraries, this one is a surprisingly interestin