Perkins House

The Constance Perkins House is a house designed by Richard Neutra and built in Pasadena, California, 1952-55. Constance Perkins was born in Denver in 1913. Her father was a Doctor and her mother was an invalid. She studied art and got her BA at the University of Denver. In 1937 she attained her Masters degree in Art History at Mills College in Oakland. In 1947, Perkins started working at Occidental College as a professor of Art History and it is ... More

The Constance Perkins House is a house designed by Richard Neutra and built in Pasadena, California, 1952-55. Constance Perkins was born in Denver in 1913. Her father was a Doctor and her mother was an invalid. She studied art and got her BA at the University of Denver. In 1937 she attained her Masters degree in Art History at Mills College in Oakland. In 1947, Perkins started working at Occidental College as a professor of Art History and it is here she meets Richard Neutra and eventually asks him to design her home. When Neutra was designing the house for her "he had to reexamine the single-family home and rework conventional patterns of the type." The house itself sits on a little hill in Pasadena, California. "The tiny house was constructed of inexpensive materials- wood, plaster, and glass; a spiderleg beam extended the space by projecting out into a small reflecting pool that meanders through one of the glass walls of the house...He also measured the physical dimensions of his...

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