The MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Neutra Institute for Survival Through Design, and the Getty Research Institute are pleased to invite you to a panel discussion and reception in celebration of the centennial of Richard Neutra’s arrival in Los Angeles and the release of the book Richard Neutra and the Making of the Lovell Health House, 1925‐35 edited by Edward Dimendberg with contributions from Nicholas Olsberg, Thomas Hines, Crosby Doe, and contemporary photography by Grant Mudford. Join Crosby Doe, Edward Dimendberg, and Raymond Neutra at the MAK Center at the Schindler House in conversation on the creation of the Lovell Health House and its legacy in shaping contemporary approaches to wellness in architecture.
This program is the second in a collaborative series between the MAK Center and Neutra Institute, following “Are Neutra and Schindler Relevant A Hundred Years Later?” in May 2025
The book Richard Neutra and the Making of the Lovell Health House, 1925 - 35 will be on sale.
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STEPHANIE BARRON
Stephanie Barron has organized many ground-breaking exhibitions at LACMA where she is long time Senior Curator and Modern Art Department Head, among them “Degenerate Art”: The Fate of the Avant-Garde in Nazi Germany, Exiles + Émigrés:The Flight of European Artists from Hitler, and New Objectivity: Modern German Art in the Weimar Republic. She has organized exhibitions devoted to the work of Calder, Chagall, Gehry, Hockney, Klimt, Magritte, McLaughlin, and Ken Price. She has been decorated by the German government, and received the Wormland, Kirchner, and Runge Prizes. Her exhibitions and publications have five times been voted the best in the U.S. by AICA, and two of her catalogues have received the Alfred H. Barr Award. Barron is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a longtime member of the Art Advisory Panel of the IRS, trustee of the John Baldessari Family Foundation, and a board member of The Industry LA.
ED DIMENDBERG
Edward Dimendberg is a historian of architecture and urbanism and Professor of Humanities at the University of California, Irvine. He also has taught at Columbia University, the University of Michigan, UCLA, and the Southern California Institute of Architecture. His books include Film Noir and the Spaces of Modernity (Harvard, 2004) and Diller Scofidio + Renfro: Architecture after Images (Chicago, 2013). In 2022 the Getty Research Institute published his critical edition of Los Angeles: The Development, Life, and Structure of the City of Two Million in Southern California by the German geographer Anton Wagner. This year they published the documentary history he edited, Richard Neutra and the Making of the Lovell Health House 1925-35. His research has been supported by fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Canadian Centre for Architecture, and the American Academy in Berlin. He is currently writing a book about documentary films on architecture.
RAYMOND NEUTRA
Raymond Richard Neutra, a retired physician and environmental epidemiologist, is Richard Neutra's remaining son and President of the Neutra Institute. He will moderate this first event celebrating the centennial of his parents arrival in Los Angeles and will participate in the panel discussion afterwards.
GETTY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
As a part of the J. Paul Getty Trust based in the city of Los Angeles, the Getty Research Institute (GRI) is an international center with an extensive library, special collections, array of programs, and a knowledgeable and diverse staff. We are committed to preserving, creating, and sharing resources related to the history of art, conceived in the broadest terms.
MAK CENTER FOR ART AND ARCHITECTURE
The MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles is a contemporary, experimental, multi-disciplinary center for art and architecture and is headquartered in three architectural landmarks by the Austrian-American architect Rudolph M. Schindler. Founded in 1994, the MAK Center is a Los Angeles-based 501(c)3 non-profit organization and the California satellite of the MAK – Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna. The core of the programming includes the internationally recognized MAK Artists and Architects-in-Residence Program, an annual residency program for emerging international artists and architects. The MAK Center works in cooperation with the Friends of the Schindler House (FoSH), a nonprofit organization whose mission is to preserve and maintain Schindler's Kings Road house in West Hollywood.
NEUTRA INSTITUTE FOR SURVIVAL THROUGH DESIGN
The Neutra Institute for Survival Through Design is a 501c3 charitable organization founded by famous architect Richard Neutra in 1962. He named it after the title of his 1954 book Survival Through Design. In that book he argued that the survival of humans and the planet requires a commitment to research-inspired design that artfully combines technology and nature. He called this “biorealism.” We have two missions: to preserve and share the Neutra legacy and to promote creative research-inspired design that serves people and the planet.