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Record 096 · Showcase home · 1929
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Lovell Health House
Richard Neutra designed the Lovell House in Los Feliz, Los Angeles, for health and fitness advocate Philip Lovell and his wife Leah; the LA Times calls it the country's first all-steel-framed residence, built in 1929. Its light steel frame, prefabricated in portable sections, went up in under 40 hours on a heavy concrete foundation set into the hillside, and its walls are wire lath sprayed with gunite.
- Light steel frame prefabricated in portable sections and erected in less than 40 hours
- Exterior walls of wire lath sprayed with gunite (sprayed concrete)
- Concrete foundation set into the hillside that also forms the pool base
- Staircase lit by Model-T Ford headlights
- Open-web steel joists and 4-inch-square steel posts at 5-foot intervals
- biophilic
- prefab-panel
Image
- Credit
- Los Angeles, via commons.wikimedia.org (CC BY-SA 3.0)
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Source
- commons.wikimedia.org
Dating
- “became the country’s first all-steel-framed residence when it was built in 1929” · latimes.com
