Richard Joseph Neutra (April 8, 1892 – April 16, 1970) is considered to have been one of modernism's most significant architects.
Neutra was born in Leopoldstadt, the 2nd district of Vienna, Austria Hungary, on April 8, 1892. The future architect was born into a wealthy Jewish family. His Jewish-Hungarian father Samuel Neutra (1844, Hungary – 1920) was a proprietor of a metal foundry, and his mother, Elizabeth "Betty" Glaser Neutra (1851, Leopold...
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Richard Joseph Neutra (April 8, 1892 – April 16, 1970) is considered to have been one of modernism's most significant architects.
Neutra was born in Leopoldstadt, the 2nd district of Vienna, Austria Hungary, on April 8, 1892. The future architect was born into a wealthy Jewish family. His Jewish-Hungarian father Samuel Neutra (1844, Hungary – 1920) was a proprietor of a metal foundry, and his mother, Elizabeth "Betty" Glaser Neutra (1851, Leopoldstadt – 1905) was a member of the IKG Wien. Richard has 2 brothers who also emigrated to the USA, and a sister who married in Vienna.
Neutra attended to the Sophiengymnasium in Vienna until 1910, and he studied under Adolf Loos at the Vienna University of Technology (1910–1918). He was a student of Max Fabiani and Karl Mayreder. In 1912 he undertook to study trip to Italy and Balkans with Ernst Ludwig Freud (son of Sigmund Freud).
After World War I Neutra went to Switzerland where he worked with the landscape architect Gustav Ammann. In 1921...
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