Richard Neutra's Windshield House
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| Rating | : | 4.64 (692 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0300092032 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 120 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-01-30 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Windshield House" according to Granger60. 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.. Michael Webb said Richard NeutraÃ*s Windshield House. 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 t. 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 t. . 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 t
The Browns rebuilt the house and continued to occupy it until 1959. 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. A striking example of International Style architecture that featured many modern innovations, including two of R. Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion bathrooms, the house was severely damaged by a hurricane only weeks after its completion. Carter Brown has contributed personal recollections about growing up in Windshield. In 1936, John Nicholas and Anne Brown commissioned Richard Neutra, the great Vienna-born architect, to design a summer house for them on Fishers Island, New York. This book will accompany an exhibition that opens at the Harvard University Art Museums in November 2001, and will then travel to the RISD Museu. J. The house was destroyed by fire in 1975. This engaging publication, written by prominent scholars of contemporary architecture and design, is the first to focus on the collaborative design process for Windshield, as revealed by the extensive Brown/Neutra corresp
Recommended for all architectural collections of strength. From Library Journal This book, published in connection with an exhibit at Harvard's Arthur M. Jay Schafer, Univ. 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. . of Massachusetts, Amherst Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc. Commissioned by John Nicholas and Anne Brown (of Providence's Brown University family), the house, named after its use of many large windows, was completed on Fishers Island, NY, in 1938. While the story of a house and the owner-architect collab