Mountain Home Air Force Base Housing Project

Julius Shulman photography archive, 1936-1997.

Mountain Home Air Force Base Housing Project

 

Richard Neutra’s clever innovations employed in the Mountain Home Air Force Base Housing Project anticipate his creative approach to his later speculative housing project in Bewobau, Germany. For this Idaho commission, more modest designs for 500 units offered a range of options from multiplexes to free-standing houses. The multiplexes themselves contained multiple unit designs, including a larger, end unit with flexible living spaces; here, living rooms could be transformed into private studies through sliding doors. Exterior and interior spaces were differentiated by reorienting the direction of the wood siding.

Adapted from Neutra – Complete Works by Barbara Lamprecht (Taschen, 2000), p. 280.

Project Detail

Year Built

1954–55

Project Architect

Neutra & Alexander with Hummel, Hummel & Jones

Client

Air Force

Location

Mountain Home, ID

Julius Shulman photography archive, 1936-1997.
Julius Shulman photography archive, 1936-1997.
Richard and Dion Neutra Papers (Collection 1179). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles
Richard and Dion Neutra Papers (Collection 1179). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles
Richard and Dion Neutra Papers (Collection 1179). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles
Richard and Dion Neutra Papers (Collection 1179). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles