Richard Joseph Neutra (April_8, 1892 – April_16, 1970) is considered one of modernism's most important architects.

Neutra was innate around Vienna, Austria in 1892. He exposed under Adolf Loos, was influenced by Otto Wagner, and worked for the instance inside Germany. He moved to the United States by 1923 and became a naturalized citizen in 1929. Neutra worked briefly for Frank Lloyd Wright but eventually ended higher around California, in which he worked for close friend Rudolf Schindler (the two experienced met originally within Vienna at university) prior to opening his have practice using his married woman, Dione.

He was renowned for even the wonderful attention he gave to defining the rattling needs of his clients, whether he was commissioned to build the elementary home or the mansion. This was inside direct contrast by using more mental designer, world health organizatiin would typically run all about to inflict their artistic vision on the client, irrespective of what was really required to produce the house. He would every now and again apply elaborate questionnaires to call for out exactly what a owners would require, very much to the surprise of numbers of of his clients. His household architecture was the blend of Art, landscape & practical comfort.

Neutrthe got a acutely feel of irony and he would gently make fun of his clients by having the straight face. He can another time tell entirely outrageous lie around a children, like the story that Josef von Sternberg kept cannons, & vicious spiders to ward off trespasser and that he was planning to keep close at hand an incinerator built to dispose of the bodies that his Persian chauffeur observed each morning in the electrified fosse as much as his beautiful home. Once pressed he would readily admit his guilt of wanting "to make things more interesting".

A revival in the mid-90s of mid-century modernism has given recently cache' to his act, when its be (along by owning Lautner & Schindler's) trophy property for the popular culture & media elite group including Tom Ford, Kelly Lynch & others by having cost topping $4 million for Outbreak Survey 20 & $6 million for the Singleton Home.

Neutra died around Wuppertal, Germany in 1970.

Neutra's boy Dion hwhen saved a professional open as "Richard and Dion Neutra Architecture" around Los Angeles.

Neutra's works include: Lovell House, 1929, Los Angeles Von Sternberg house 1935 San Fernando valley. Emerson Junior High School, 1938, West Los Angeles, California Kaufman Home, 1946, Palm Springs, California Moore House, 1952, Ojai, California (received AIA award) [http://www.r20thcentury.com/bios/designer.cfm?article_id=76] Case Study House programs Delcourt Home, 1968-1969, Croix, Nord, France Kuhns Home, 1964, Woodland Hills, California