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a verynice design studio collaborated with Rebeca Mendez Design studio to create this website, "Neutra Lives." Richard Neutra (1892-1970) played a crucial role in the development and public acceptance of modern architecture across the United States and around the world. As a practitioner, mentor, and thinker his influence was deep and enduring. He achieved recognition at the outset of his 45-year practice, and his reputation has flowered since his death. He was prolific and extraordinarily consistent in his inventive variations on a few basic themes.

Neutra devoted most of his energies to the single-family house, but he applied the same conscientious skill to everything his office produced, including multiple housing, schools, public and institutional buildings, and places of worship. His spirit is still alive and he has enriched the lives of countless occupants and users. Most of his three hundred buildings have survived and are cherished, but there have been tragic losses, and several more are at risk.

This site is a forum: created by Neutra residents to head off disasters like the wanton destruction of the Maslon House in Cathedral City, CA; help enlist support for rescue efforts, including the campaign to restore the Richard and Dion Neutra VDL studio/residence in Silver Lake; celebrate exemplary restoration; and encourage owners and architects to share expertise on sources and strategies. It will also inform buyers of available properties and raise public awareness of a precious legacy.