NEUTRA, Richard.
Mystery and Realities of the Site.
Scarsdale: Morgan & Morgan, 1951.
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First Edition of Richard Neutra's Mystery and Realities of the Site; Inscribed by Him
First edition of the pioneering modernist architect Richard Neutra’s meditation on the relationship between a building and its natural setting. Oblong quarto, original red cloth, illustrated with black-and-white photographs of his designs. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “...with very heartfelt good wishes Richard Neutra 1952." Near fine in a good dust jacket with losses to the spine, closed tears, and soiling, inscription to the front free endpaper.
Richard Neutra (1892-1970) was among the most influential architects of the twentieth century and a central figure in the development of American modernism. Born and trained in Vienna, he emigrated to the United States in the 1920s and settled in Southern California, where his sleek, light-filled designs, most famously the Lovell Health House in Los Angeles and the Kaufmann Desert House in Palm Springs, came to define the International Style in America and its distinctive California idiom. Mystery and Realities of the Site is Neutra’s extended reflection on one of the abiding concerns of his work, the intimate relationship between a building and the landscape into which it is set, illustrated throughout with photographs of his own projects. It stands as one of the most personal statements of his philosophy of organic, site-responsive modern architecture.
Mystery and Realities of the Site.
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