Alvar Aalto Academy Spring Lecture:

”Richard Neutra and the Neutra VDL Research House”
By Sarah Lorenzen

Wednesday 25.5.2016 at 4pm
Sähkötalo building auditorium, Runeberginkatu 1 A
(entrance on street level), 00100 Helsinki

Lecture in English
Free entry

The Alvar Aalto Academy’s popular spring lecture takes a look at one of the giants of modern architecture, Austrian-American architect Richard Neutra.

Today Richard Neutra is primarily remembered for the mid-century Modernist houses he built in Southern California. During his illustrious career Neutra completed close to 300 projects. Neutras architecture was based on something he called bio-realism; the idea that man and nature are inseparable.

In addition to designing houses Neutra worked on a number of large institutional and multi-family housing projects, and published numerous books and essays about modern construction systems and his architecture theories.

The lecturer, Sarah Lorenzen, is an architect, associate professor and chair of the Architecture Department at Cal Poly Pomona. Since 2007 she has been the resident director of the Neutra VDL Studio and Residences in Los Angeles.

Further information:
Merja Vainio, merja.h.vainio@alvaraalto.fi, +358 400 772 636, Alvar Aalto Foundation