Von Sternberg house was a single bedroom (servant bedrooms excluded) mini-mansion designed by the architect Richard Neutra. It was built in 1935 in Northridge, California in the then-rural San Fernando Valley for the movie director Josef von Sternberg. It was demolished in 1972 to make way for a housing development.
Neutra was known as a philosopher of Modernism in Architecture, and his work as a practitioner was in constant interaction with his ...
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Von Sternberg house was a single bedroom (servant bedrooms excluded) mini-mansion designed by the architect Richard Neutra. It was built in 1935 in Northridge, California in the then-rural San Fernando Valley for the movie director Josef von Sternberg. It was demolished in 1972 to make way for a housing development.
Neutra was known as a philosopher of Modernism in Architecture, and his work as a practitioner was in constant interaction with his thoughts and writings. Von Sternberg house was one of the most impressive of the incarnations of this philosophy, along with Lovell house.
The Von Sternberg house was the opposite of the McMansions built at the beginning of the 21st century. Unlike the larger McMansions, the Von Sternberg house had a very small number of rooms and a relatively small surface area which played up its unique design features. While it did have a few features of ostentatious display, such as a separate, larger and higher garage bay for a Rolls-Royce in addition to...
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