Richard Neutra and the Search for Modern Architecture - Softcover

Hines, Thomas S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520085892 ISBN 13: 9780520085893

Publisher: University of California Press, 1994

Synopsis

The story of Richard Neutra's life is, in many ways, the story of modern architecture. In his lifetime, Neutra experienced the buoyant struggles of the movement's early years, the heady excesses of its mid-century ascendancy, and the strains of its slow demise. Through his study of Richard Neutra, the most distinguished architect to have worked on the west coast from the 1920s to the 1960s, Thomas Hines explores the efforts of the modernists to find new forms and meaning for their work in the twentieth century.

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From the Inside Flap:

"This study, part biography and part architectural analysis, is a modern masterpiece of architectural history. The prose is lucid and sometimes elegant—very much like the work of Richard Neutra which it so brilliantly examines."—Peter Gay, Yale University

"An important contribution to the understanding of 'modernist' culture in the United States and a perceptive analysis of the achievement of a major American architect, with a European background and an international reputation."—William Jordy, Brown University

From the Back Cover:

"This study, part biography and part architectural analysis, is a modern masterpiece of architectural history. The prose is lucid and sometimes elegant (very much like the work of Richard Neutra which it so brilliantly examines." (Peter Gay, Yale University)

About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0520085892
• ISBN 13: 9780520085893
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 376