edited by Dietrich Neumann with contributions by Joyce Botelho, J. Carter Brown, Sarah Williams Goldhagen, Thomas S. Hines, Thomas Michie, and Dietrich Neumann In the mid-1930s, John Nicholas and Anne Brown commissioned Richard Neutra, 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. This book will accompany an exhibition that opens at Harvard University's Arthur M. Sackler Museum and will then travel to the Museum of Art of the Rhode Island School of Design. Contents Preface Jorge Silvetti Introduction Sarah Williams Goldhagen 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 Appendix: Browns' Response to Neutra Questionnaire Windshield Chronology Selected Bibliography on Neutra and Windshield compiled by Dietrich Neumann Contributors Illustration Credits Index Published by the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, the Harvard University Art Museums, and Yale University Press. 168 pages, paperback 11" x 8.5" 109 illustrations, including 8 in color |
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