The all steel and shot concrete demonstration Health house in Los Angeles. [ca. 1938]

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The all steel and shot concrete demonstration Health house in Los Angeles. [ca. 1938]

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Two black-and-white photographs depict exterior details of the all steel and shot concrete demonstration Health house, near Griffith Park, in Los Angeles, designed by American (Austrian-born) architect, Richard Neutra, in 1927 for Phillip M. Lovell. The structure was erected on a steep slope and came to be known as Neutra's "floating house" in California. Handwritten annotations on versos identify the building.

2 photographic prints : gelatin silver ; 21 x 26 cm.

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Morgan, Willard D. (Willard Detering), 1900-1967

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Neutra, Richard Joseph, 1892-1970

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Richard Josef Neutra was born in 1892 in Vienna; immigrated to US, 1923; Frank Lloyd Wright invited him to Taliesin during the fall of 1924; Neutra moved to Los Angeles, CA, 1925; most productive years were during 1930s and 1940s; spent most of his last decade in partnership with his son, Dion; published several books, including Wie baut Amerika? (1927) and Survival through design (1954); died in 1970. From the description of Papers, 1925-1970. (University of California, Los Angeles)...