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dc.coverage.spatialSite: Palm Springs, California, United Statesen_US
dc.coverage.temporal1946 (creation); restored 1997 (restoration)en_US
dc.creatorNeutra, Richard Josephen_US
dc.date1946en_US
dc.date.accessioned2014-12-17T20:46:41Z
dc.date.available2014-12-17T20:46:41Z
dc.date.issued1946en_US
dc.identifier252295en_US
dc.identifier.otherarchrefid: 3120en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/167853
dc.descriptionMailbox and house numbers; One of the last domestic projects conducted by Neutra, designed for the same family (Edgar J. Kaufmann Sr., a Pittsburgh department store tycoon) who commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater in Pennsylvania. The five-bedroom, five-bathroom vacation house, was designed to emphasize connection to the desert landscape while offering shelter from harsh climatic conditions. Large sliding glass walls open the living spaces and master bedroom to adjacent patios. When Kaufmann died in 1955, the house was vacant for a number of years, then underwent some remodeling. In 1991 new owners sought to restore the home to its original design. Neutra died in 1970 and the original plans were not available, so the couple brought in Los Angeles architects Leo Marmol and Ron Radziner to restore the design. They consulted archives at UCLA and Columbia and the 1947 photographs by Julius Shulman, which had made the house famous. Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page (accessed 7/18/2014)en_US
dc.format.mediumsteel; glass; stucco; stoneen_US
dc.rights© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.en_US
dc.subjectarchitectureen_US
dc.subjectRestoration and conservationen_US
dc.subjectXeriscapingen_US
dc.subjectTwentieth centuryen_US
dc.subjectCalifornia Modernismen_US
dc.subjectInternational Style (modern European architecture style)en_US
dc.titleKaufmann Desert Houseen_US
dc.typeimageen_US
dc.rights.accessLicensed for educational and research use by the MIT community onlyen_US
dc.identifier.vendorcode1A1-NR-KDH-A21en_US
vra.culturalContextAmericanen_US
vra.techniqueconstruction (assembling)en_US
vra.worktypehouseen_US
dc.contributor.displayRichard Joseph Neutra (American architect, 1892-1970)en_US


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