An Inscribed Copy
LIFE AND HUMAN HABITAT / MENSCH UND WOHNEN
Richard Neutra
Richard Neutra: LIFE AND HUMAN HABITAT / MENSCH UND WOHNEN.
Stuttgart: Verlaganstalt Alexander Koch, 1956. First U.S. edition. Octavo. Orange cloth stamped in gray. 318 pp. 456 photographs, plans and drawings. A very good copy in a very good photographically printed dust jacket. Art Academy Library stamps to contents page and each textblock fore edge. No other ex-libris markings present. Supplied jacket is unmarked, but chipped to spine crown and worn along folds. Inscribed by Neutra on half-title page.Inscribed in red ink on the half-title page by Richard Neutra: "To my dear ------------- -------------- with all / affection of the author to his reader: / most affectionately / Richard Neutra /."
One of the earliest and most comprehensive Neutra monographs, enhanced by a warm inscription by an architect whose role in the postwar modern residential movement cannot be overstated.
"The majority of photographs of his buildings are made by the photographer Julius Shulman, Los Angeles, whom the author instructed about his thoughts on composition and practised [sic] it with him in the following years.² [the Publishers]
Born and raised in Vienna, Richard Neutra (1872-1970) came to America early in his career, settling in California. His influence on post-war architecture is undisputed, the sunny climate and rich landscape being particularly suited to his cool, sleek modern style. Neutra had a keen appreciation for the relationship between people and nature; his trademark plate glass walls and ceilings which turn into deep overhangs have the effect of connecting the indoors with the outdoors. Neutra's ability to incorporate technology, aesthetics, science, and nature into his designs him recognition as one of Modernist architecture's greatest talents.
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