Detail View: Archivision Base to Module 9: Kaufmann Desert House
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Preferred Title:
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Kaufmann Desert House
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Image View:
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Flagstone path and small gate leading to entrance at the right of the stone wall (acts as both facade and buffer)
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Creator:
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Richard Joseph Neutra (American architect, 1892-1970)
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Location:
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site: Palm Springs, California, United States
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Location Note:
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470 West Vista Chino (West Chino Canyon Rd.)
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GPS:
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+33.845130-116.552817
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Date:
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1946 (creation); restored 1997 (restoration)
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Cultural Context:
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American
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Style Period:
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California Modernism; International Style (modern European architecture style); Twentieth century
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Work Type 1:
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house
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Classification:
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architecture
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Material:
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steel; glass; stucco; stone
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Technique:
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construction (assembling)
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Measurements:
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3,200 ft2 (area, house)
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Description:
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One of the last domestic projects conducted by Neutra, designed for the same family (Edgar J. Kaufmann Sr., a Pittsburgh department store tycoon) who commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater in Pennsylvania. The five-bedroom, five-bathroom vacation house, was designed to emphasize connection to the desert landscape while offering shelter from harsh climatic conditions. Large sliding glass walls open the living spaces and master bedroom to adjacent patios. When Kaufmann died in 1955, the house was vacant for a number of years, then underwent some remodeling. In 1991 new owners sought to restore the home to its original design. Neutra died in 1970 and the original plans were not available, so the couple brought in Los Angeles architects Leo Marmol and Ron Radziner to restore the design. They consulted archives at UCLA and Columbia and the 1947 photographs by Julius Shulman, which had made the house famous. (Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page)
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Collection:
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Archivision Addition Module Nine
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Identifier:
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1A1-NR-KDH-A12
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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