Kitchell Lecture Series: Cheap and Thin: Richard Neutra and Frank Lloyd Wright

Lecture by Dr. Raymond R. Neutra
October 21, 2021
In a grumpy moment before the 1932 MOMA "International Style" architecture exhibition, Frank Lloyd Wright characterized Richard Neutra's1929 Lovell Health House as "Cheap and Thin." Though meant as a criticism, Wright's phrase actually contained a kernel of truth. The Austro-American architect had immigrated to the United States in hopes of applying the methodology of Henry Ford to prefabricate schools, housing and clinics so as to be light and economical. Nonetheless, Neutra's work can be seen as a continuation and modification of Wright's Prairie House phase of work and the "eight points" that Wright laid out in his Wasmuth Portfolio as characterizing that phase of his work. Dr. Raymond Richard Neutra, the architect's youngest son, illustrates this thesis, which derives from his Kindle book of the same title.
This event is generously sponsored by Kitchell.

[@robrichjr]

amazing lecturer

[@buckaroo3589]

Outstanding. I learned a lot.

[@KerrieRedgate]

Marvellous! Thank you!

[@Goffmachine]

Open the door Richard.

[@MrVorpalsword]

Sorry but hearing the insincere acknowledgments about the former 'owners'? of the land before lectures from the USA is pathetic and tiresome, if you really are serious about paying respect to the former inhabitants wouldn't you just give them their land back? Colin Harwood who lives in a flat in Yorkshire, owned by my landlord, the King, previously various other monarchs, the Saxons, probably the Danes and Angles, the Romans and the Ancient Britons.