Richard Neutra: And The Search For Modern Architecture - Hardcover

Neutra, Richard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0847827631 ISBN 13: 9780847827633

Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications, 2006

Synopsis

The authoritative study of the life and career of renowned modernist architect Richard Neutra. Richard Neutra's work, his life experience, and his search for modern architecture coincided neatly with the lifespan of the modern movement. He experienced the buoyant struggles of the movement's early years, the heady excesses of mid-century ascendancy, and the strains of its slow demise, and his reputation has lately enjoyed a resurgence that was hard to predict when "Richard Neutra and the Search for Modern Architecture" was first published over twenty years ago.

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Review

"One of the striking virtues of Hines' study is that it gives due attention to Neutra's family, his upbringing, his education, and--something we still lack for many of his contemporaries--his experience in the First World War and its disastrous aftermath. . . . Whether Neutra's star is in the ascendant or in decline, Hines follows him step by step, patiently, shrewdly, judiciously, revealingly."--Reyner Banham, "Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians

About the Author

Thomas S. Hines is Professor of History of Architecture at UCLA, where he teaches cultural, urban, and architectural history. In 1982 he was co-curator, with Arthur Drexler, of the Neutra retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Hines has held Guggenheim, NEH, and Getty fellowships. In 1994 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0847827631
• ISBN 13: 9780847827633
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 384