Clarence and Claire Coe House

Clarence and Claire Coe House

This Palos Verdes home demonstrates Richard Neutra’s responses to the more stringent codes imposed by the local neighborhood association, including the mandate for pitched roofs. While Neutra accommodated this requirement, he pushed back against the neighborhood association’s contention that windows must be cut in rectangular shapes. The two-bedroom house, occupying 949 square feet, minimizes divisions between indoor and outdoor environs with flagstone flooring that extends through both spaces.

Adapted from Neutra – Complete Works by Barbara Lamprecht (Taschen, 2000), p. 218.