Record 106 · Showcase home · 1946
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Kaufmann Desert House
Built in 1946 in Palm Springs by Richard Neutra for Pittsburgh retail tycoon Edgar J. Kaufmann, the Desert House fuses glass, steel and stone in a pinwheel plan, with wings radiating from a central living and dining room. Large glazing and vertical aluminum louvers link indoors and outdoors and shade the house from desert heat. A rooftop open-air 'gloriette' was Neutra's way around zoning codes that forbade two-story structures.
- Pinwheel plan with wings radiating from a central living and dining room
- Shade-giving vertical aluminum louvers against the desert heat
- Rooftop open-air gloriette, a workaround for zoning that forbade two-story structures
- Strong indoor-outdoor connection through large areas of glazing
- Glass, steel and stone construction
- passive-solar
Image
- Credit
- Pmeulbroek, via commons.wikimedia.org (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Source
- commons.wikimedia.org
Dating
- “built in 1946 by Austrian-born architect Richard Neutra for retail tycoon Edgar J.” · dwell.com
