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Richard Neutra's Windshield
House
Dietrich Neumann, editor Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Harvard University Art Museums, Yale University Press, New Haven and London |
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In the mid-1930s, John Nicholas and Anne Brown commissioned Richard Netura, the great Vienna-born architect, to design a summer house for them on Fishers Island, New York. Completed in 1938, Windshield (named for its large expanses of glass) was the first house Neutra built on the East Coast. A striking example of International Style architecture that featured many modern innovations, the house was severely damaged by a hurricane only weeks after its completeion. The Browns rebuilt the house and continued to occupy it until 1959; it was destroyed by fire in 1973.
This engaging publication, written by prominent scholoars of contemporary architecture and design, is the first to focus on the collaborative design process for Windshield, as revealed by the extensive Brown-Neutra correspondence, as well as on the house's place within modern American architecture.
The book accompanies an exhibition that opens at Harvard University's Arthur M. Sackler Museum and then travels to the Museum of Art of the Rhode Island School of Design.
Contents
Preface
Jorge Silvetti
Introduction
Sarah Williams Goldhagen
Plates
Toward Windshield-and After: the Achievement of Richard Neutra
by Thomas S. Hines
Richard Neutra's Windshield an modern Architecture in the United
States
by Dietrich Neumann
The Furniture and Furnishing of Windshield
by Thomas S. Michie
Kindred Spirits: John and Anne Brown and the Building of Windshield
by Joyce. M. Botelho
Windshield: A Reminiscence
by J. Carter Brown
Appendix
Brown's Response to Neutra Questionnaire
Windshield Chronology
Writings by Richard Neutra: Bibliography
compiled by Dietrich Neumann
Contributors
Illustration Credits
Index
Publication Title:
Richard Neutra's Windshield House
Year Published:
2001
Editor:
Dietrich Neumann
Format:
150 pages, paperback.
In the Frances Loeb Library:
NA737.N4 R53 2001
Special Collections Rare NA737.N4 R53 2001
.