Neutra - Kaufmann House
| April 27, 2008

Richard Neutra’s iconic Kaufmann House in Palm Springs, California, a masterpiece of Post-War art and architecture, was designed and created between 1946 and 1947 as a winter desert retreat for Pittsburgh department store owner Edgar J. Kaufmann. Kaufmann also commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright’s famous Fallingwater, his weekend home near Pittsburgh.

Along with Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House and Philip Johnson’s Glass House, Neutra’s Kaufmann House is one of the most important and influential examples of 20th century art and architecture in the Americas. It represents the purest realization of Neutra’s Modernist ideals: its organic spaces and floor-to-ceiling sliding glass walls seamlessly connecting man and nature, the inside and outside worlds. The house remains singular as the most important example of mid-century modernist architecture in the Americas to remain in private hands.

Link:  The Kaufmann House

Tags:  kaufmann, modern architecture, neutra, shulman

Topic: Architecture