Neutra

[noi-truh]

noun

1. Richard Joseph, 1892–1970, U.S. architect, born in Austria.

2. German name of Nitra.

Example Sentences

If there’s a house by Lautner or Neutra or Frank Lloyd Wright, sometimes we’ll take a schlep just for the house, to even just see from the street.

From Los Angeles Times

Nevertheless, Neutra designed the project — a small city within the city, featuring 24 13-story towers and 163 two-story buildings.

From Los Angeles Times

The city had hired renowned architect Richard Neutra to design it, although he was less than fully enthusiastic about razing a community that exuded “a certain human warmth and pleasantness, a certain contact with nature” that was rare in a big city.

From Los Angeles Times

Popular with the public in its day, Art Deco was rejected by the art and academic community in favor of the International Style, a sleek, minimalist sensibility seen in the works of practitioners like Richard Neutra and Philip Johnson, curator of a landmark 1932 MoMA show on the subject.

From Los Angeles Times

Those homes — especially those designed by Midcentury greats such as John Lautner, Richard Neutra, Ray Kappe, and Charles and Ray Eames — have been the obsession of those tracking the threats posed by firestorms laying waste to the wooded canyons and grassy hillsides that are the scenic backdrops for these residences.

From Los Angeles Times