Richard Neutra's Miller House

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Architecture

ISBN: 9781568982748
English edition
Princeton Architectural Press
Softcover, 192 pages
20,3 x 25,4 cm
black & white
April 2004
€30,00 (excl. VAT)

Richard Neutra's Miller House

Stephen Leet

At the dawn of his international fame, architect Richard Neutra was approached by a St. Louis socialite, Grace Lewis Miller, to design a small winter home on the edge of glamour-baked Palm Springs. Miller wanted an open, light-filled house that could also act as a studio for her fashionably avant-garde exercise course in posture and grace, "The Mensendieck System".

In Richard Neutra’s Miller House, Stephen Leet traces the conception and realization of the house, examines the complex relationship between architect and client, and shows how the Mensendieck System influenced the creation of this seminal Neutra project. Beautiful duotone photographs by Julius Shulman, excerpts from the detailed correspondence between Neutra and Miller, and sketches and drawings provide valuable insight into the design process.