Neutra Books

Cheap and Thin: Neutra and Frank Lloyd Wright

In this richly illustrated book, Dr. Raymond Richard Neutra traces the forty-year relationship between his parents and the great architect Frank Lloyd Wright. The author’s father, the pioneer modern architect Richard Neutra, immigrated to the United States in the early 1920’s with the dual motivation of working for his idol Frank Lloyd Wright and for exploring the American industrial potential for economical and light weight housing, schools, medical facilities and other “architecture of social concern.”

The book quotes from the many letters exchanged between Wright and the Neutra’s and recounts family memories of visits between them. It then explores the substantial influence of Wright on Neutra and how Neutra adapted, adopted and added strategies and design features to gradually develop what was to become mid-century “California Modern.”

Life and Shape: The Autobiography of Richard Neutra

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Appleton-Century-Crofts, an affiliate of Meredith Press (1962); Library of Congress number: 62-8498.

Out of print.