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9781568982748 English 1568982747 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." This unique program, combined with the desert landscape and the proactive health-minded client appealed to the idealist in Neutra. The frequent, fervent dialog between Neutra and Miller, who had great mutual respect, produced a work of forward-thinking and artful architecture. 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 drawing provide valuable insight into the design process. Like the houses of Albert Frey, a contemporary of Neutra's who also build in the desert, the Miller House shows how architecture , the California landscape, and an interest in well-being can intersect in a moment of the architectural sublime., Following her husband's death in 1936, Grace Lewis Miller (1895-1976) left Missouri to relocate in Palm Springs, California. A certified teacher of the Mensendieck System of Functional Exercises--a posture-improving fitness program that originated in Germany in the 1920s--Miller commissioned Austrian-born architect Richard Neutra (1892-1970) to des, In 1936 Austrian architect Richard Neutra was commissioned by Grace Miller to design a house in Palm Springs. The book traces the complex relationship between client and architect and shows how it influenced the design of the Miller House.
9781568982748 English 1568982747 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." This unique program, combined with the desert landscape and the proactive health-minded client appealed to the idealist in Neutra. The frequent, fervent dialog between Neutra and Miller, who had great mutual respect, produced a work of forward-thinking and artful architecture. 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 drawing provide valuable insight into the design process. Like the houses of Albert Frey, a contemporary of Neutra's who also build in the desert, the Miller House shows how architecture , the California landscape, and an interest in well-being can intersect in a moment of the architectural sublime., Following her husband's death in 1936, Grace Lewis Miller (1895-1976) left Missouri to relocate in Palm Springs, California. A certified teacher of the Mensendieck System of Functional Exercises--a posture-improving fitness program that originated in Germany in the 1920s--Miller commissioned Austrian-born architect Richard Neutra (1892-1970) to des, In 1936 Austrian architect Richard Neutra was commissioned by Grace Miller to design a house in Palm Springs. The book traces the complex relationship between client and architect and shows how it influenced the design of the Miller House.