Neumann, Dietrich (editor) — Richard Neutra's Windshield House

New Haven, Conn, Yale University Press / Harvard University Graduate School of Design, 2001. Softcover. Blue & gray & illus. wraps, 150 pp. some small BW & color illus. Issued in conjuinction with an exhibition. "In the mid-1930s, John Nicholas and Anne Brown commissioned Richard Neutra [1892-1970], the great Vienna-born architect, to design a summer house for them on Fishers Island, New York. Completed in 1938, Windshield (named for its large expanses of glass) was the first house Neutra built on the East Coast. A striking example of International Style architecture that featured many modern innovations, the house was severely damaged by a hurricane only weeks after its completion. The Browns rebuilt the house and continued to occupy it until 1959; it was destroyed by fire in 1973. This engaging publication, written by prominent scholars of contemporary architecture and design, is the first to focus on the collaborative design process for Windshield, as revealed by the extensive Brown-Neutra correspondence, as well as on the house's place within modern American architecture." (back cover) Contents as follows: Toward Windshield--and after : the achievement of Richard Neutra / Thomas S. Hines -- Richard Neutra's Windshield and modern architecture in the United States / Dietrich Neumann -- The furniture and furnishing of Windshield / Thomas S. Michie -- Kindred spirits : John and Anne Brown and the building of Windshield / Joyce M. Botelho -- Windshield : a reminiscence / J. Carter Brown. VG .