ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1971.
Oblast: Arhitektura
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Rihard Nojtra - monografija


London, Velika Britanija 1871. Tvrd povez, zaštitni omot, bogato ilustrovano, engleski jezik, veliki format (26 cm), 135 strana.
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The reputation of Richard Neutra (1892-1970) is founded on his finely executed and superbly landscaped domestic buildings. Born and educated in Vienna, where he was influenced by the leading European architects, notably Adolph Loos, Neutra developed the intense dislike of ornament which was to characterize his work. He emigrated to the USA in 1923. and in 1926. established a practice in California, where the majority of his buildings are to be found. His early fame rests on a technical tour de force, the Lovell house in Los Angeles (1928), featuring a prefabricated steel skeleton and suspended balconies, built on a steeply sloping site. His pioneering use of new techniques and materials was further encouraged by the Dutch industrialist C. H. van der Leeuw, whose financial assistance led to the construction of the V.D.L. Research House, Los Angeles (1933), but later, when the use of such strategic materials as steel was banned during the war, Neutra was forced to revert to, for example, redwood, natural stone, common bricks and glass. His highly individual style is characterized by the adoption of plate glass for exterior walls, combined with overhanging eaves, outrigged columns and integrated pools, and by the exploitation of the sub-tropical Californian vegetation to create privacy. Although he designed a variety of large-scale buildings, ranging from the California Military Academy (1936) to public housing, office buildings, churches and schools, it was in his treatment of domestic buildings— among them the Nesbitt house, Brentwood (1942), the Moore house in the Ojai Valley (1952) and the Kaufmann house, Palm Springs (1946-47) — and in his brilliant adaption of design to natural surroundings, that Neutra`s outstanding achievements lay.


With 86 plates, 28 plans and drawings