"Richard Neutra On Building Mystery & Realities Of The Site" 1951 (INSCRIBED)

NEUTRA, Richard Warmly inscribed on FFEP: To Hugh Mercer Jr April 13, 1954 [64] pp. Morgan & Morgan, Publishers 1951 8" x 10 1/4" My experience, everything within me, is against an abstract approach to land and nature and for the profound assets rooted in each site…The ancients thought those vital assets spirits.” Do you plan to build a small house? A large house? A mansion in the desert? A perch on a mountain? A big housing project? A building of any kind? Or are you, perforce, just a dreamer? Then you will find this book—the first published in the United States on the work of Richard Neutra—a delightful and practical guide, even to your dreams. In it one of the world’s leading architects states principles that can be applied to a multitude of building conditions, cites illuminating examples of his ingenious solutions to land-and-house problems, and shows countless ways in which the “profound assets rooted and buried in each site” can be awakened to “startling values of design, tr