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dc.coverage.spatialSite: Silver Lake (Los Angeles, California, United States)en_US
dc.coverage.temporal1965-1966 (creation)en_US
dc.creatorNeutra, Richard Josephen_US
dc.date1965-1966en_US
dc.date.accessioned2012-12-27T16:32:49Z
dc.date.available2012-12-27T16:32:49Z
dc.date.issued1965-1966en_US
dc.identifier181214en_US
dc.identifier.otherarchrefid: 2068en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/86640
dc.descriptionFrontal view of west elevation, from across street; With a no-interest loan from Dutch philanthropist Dr Charles Van Der Leeuw, Austrian-American architect Richard Neutra built a radical "glass house" with rooftop and balcony gardens on Silver Lake Boulevard for himself and his family. He called it the VDL Research house, after his benefactor. It was designed to accommodate his office and two families on a small 60 x 70 foot lot. Seven years later, as his family expanded, he built a garden house on the back of the lot. This compact wing had walls that slid open onto a pocket garden to be shared by the addition and main house. In 1963 after a disastrous fire, that left unscathed only the 1940 Garden house and basement of the original wing, Neutra and his son and partner Dion Neutra had a chance to redesign the main house. Two floors and a penthouse solarium were built on the original prefabricated basement structure. They applied what the practice had learned in the interim about sun louvers, water roofs, "nature-near", and physiologically motivated design. Source: Neutra VDL [website]; http://www.neutra-vdl.org/ (accessed 7/14/2010)en_US
dc.format.mediumsteel; glass; concreteen_US
dc.rights© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.en_US
dc.subjectarchitectureen_US
dc.subjectArtists' studiosen_US
dc.subjectexperimental architectureen_US
dc.subjectdomestic architectureen_US
dc.subjectpassive solaren_US
dc.subjectTwentieth centuryen_US
dc.subjectModernisten_US
dc.subjectInternational Style (modern European architecture style)en_US
dc.titleVDL Research House IIen_US
dc.typeimageen_US
dc.rights.accessLicensed for educational and research use by the MIT community onlyen_US
dc.identifier.vendorcode1A1-NR-NH-A2en_US
vra.culturalContextAmericanen_US
vra.techniqueconstruction (assembling) prefabricationen_US
vra.worktypehouseen_US
vra.worktypestudio (work space)en_US
dc.contributor.displayRichard Joseph Neutra (American architect, 1892-1970)en_US


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