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Richard Neutra. Richard Joseph Neutra (/ ˈnɔɪtrə / NOI-tra; [1] April 8, 1892 – April 16, 1970) was an Austrian-American architect. Living and building for most of his career in Southern California, he came to be considered a prominent and important modernist architect. [2][3] His most notable works include the Kaufmann Desert House, in ...
After Kaufmann died in 1955, the house stood vacant for several years. It then had a series of owners, including singer Barry Manilow and San Diego Chargers owner Eugene V. Klein, [5] and had several renovations. These renovations enclosed a patio, added floral wallpaper to the bedrooms and removed a wall for the addition of a media room.
Rooftop Fountain Beauty. In a 1901 seven-story townhouse on New York’s Upper East Side, Jesse Carrier and Mara Miller paid homage to the house’s Beaux Arts beginnings by installing a carved ...
The original house was destroyed by fire in March 1963. [10] Along with the house, the fire destroyed Neutra's collection of sketches, writings and architecture library. [10] Neutra's son, Dion Neutra, rebuilt the house with his father's oversight. The original footprint of the house was preserved, though a number of changes were made in the ...
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Also dating from this time is the western arcade of pointed arches of the Patio de Santa Isabel, intrados in lobed arcs, and a small, square bedroom covered with an octagonal dome of wood and a curious entrance door with a lobed intrados arch circumscribed in a very fine alfiz, with an arabesque spandrel. This door leads to a triple loggia of ...
Mohammed Abu al-Qumsan cries after his wife, newborn twin babies, and mother-in-law died during an Israeli airstrike, at the morgue of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir Al Balah, Gaza on Aug. 13, 2024.
Patio is also a general term used for outdoor seating at restaurants, especially in Canadian English. While common in Europe even before 1900, eating outdoors at restaurants in North America was exotic until the 1940s. The Hotel St. Moritz in New York in the 1950s advertised itself as having the first true continental cafe with outdoor seating.