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Richard Neutra "Place Man in relationship to Nature; that's where he developed and where he feels most at home!" —Richard Neutra A native of Vienna, Austria, Richard Joseph Neutra (1892-1970) had familial ties with the scions of the city’s avant-garde community; Ernest Freud, son of the famed psychologist, was a childhood friend, and his parents knew the artist Gustav Klimt and Arnold Schonberg, the famed composer. Richard received his architectural training at the Technische Hochschule in Vienna, where he studied under Adolph Loos (graduating in 1917). His early work experiences included a brief stint in the office of Berlin architect Erich Mendelsohn (1921-22), and later, in the United States, with the Chicago firm of Holabird and Roche (1924). This professional training disposed him to design values associated with the machine aesthetic and the potential of technological innovation. Coupled with this perspective was a fascination with natural phenomenon, which was nurtured during brief employment (Summer 1919) at Otto Froebel’s nursery and landscape firm located in Zurich. There, Richard came under the tutelage of Gustav Ammann, who encouraged an interest in botany, landscape and site planning, which the designer