Richard Josef Neutra (1892-1970) was born in Vienna. He was the city architect for Luckenwalde, then worked as a draftsman-collaborator with Erich Mendelsohn in Berlin before immigrating to the United States in 1923. He worked with Frank Lloyd Wright (1924) before settling in Los Angeles. His most productive years were during 1930s and 1940s. In the 1960s, Richard J Neutra worked in partnership with his son Dion. The collection consists of correspondence both personal and professional belonging to Richard J Neutra as well as his wife Dione Neutra, travel records and sketches, publications, drawings, blueprints, oversized rolled plans, audio recordings, and photographs.
Folder 1 of the Project records series contains black and white photographs documenting the construction of the Lovell Health House. This set includes proofs and images of steel framing.
Invoice for thirteen remaining copies of the August 1949 edition of House and Garden magazine featuring an article on the Von Sternberg House and Ayn Rand, who became the second owner in the 1940s.
![Architects Richard J. Neutra, Wright, Mendelsohn, the Tsuchiuras, and the Mosers, 1924 [photograph]](https://iiif.library.ucla.edu/iiif/2/ark%3A%2F21198%2Fzz0009f1c2%2Fk826pv3x/full/!200,200/0/default.jpg)