Architectural historian Thomas S. Hines seminal critcal biography of modernist master architect Richard Neutra is a much loved classic among architecture students and professionals and will be a must-have title for lovers of mid-century modern architecture and design. Richard Neutra's work, his life experience, and his search for modern architecture coincided neatly with the lifespan of the modern movement. He experienced the buoyant struggles of the movement's early years, the heady excesses of its mid-century ascendancy, and the strains of its slow demise, and his reputation has lately enjoyed a resurgence that was hard to predict when Richard Neutra and the Search for Modern Architecture was first published over twenty years ago. Thomas S. Hines explores the efforts of Neutra and his modernist contemporaries to find the forms that would best express the meaning of the twentieth century in this landmark study, one of the first to give this modern American master his full due.
