Richard Neutra's Miller House
"In 1936, St. Louis socialite Grace Lewis Miller commissioned internationally acclaimed architect Richard Neutra to design a winter house in the burgeoning heart of Palm Springs, California. The therapeutic value of modern architecture espoused by Neutra - already evident in his V.D.L. Research House and Lovell Demonstration Health House - appealed to Miller, an instructor of the posture-improving Mensendieck System of Functional Exercise. Miller wanted an open, light-filled house that would also accommodate a studio for her avant-garde practice. This unique program, combined with the incredible beauty of a desert site, attracted Neutra to the small but important project
Print Book, English, ©2004
School of Architecture, Washington University in St. Louis ; Princeton Architectural Press, St. Louis, New York, N.Y., ©2004