WED, APR 30 / 7 pm
Directed by Mike Dorsey
2012, USA, 46 min
In 1959, a government employee named Richard Oyler, living in the tiny desert town of Lone Pine, California, asked world-famous modern architect Richard Neutra to design his modest family home. To Oyler’s surprise, Neutra agreed. Thus began an unlikely friendship that would last for the rest of Neutra’s life. Considered the “father of California Modern Architecture”, Time Magazine put Richard Neutra on their cover in 1949, ranking him second only to Frank Lloyd Wright among America’s greatest architects. The Oyler House: Richard Neutra’s Desert Retreat explores how a man of his stature came to befriend this modest, small-town family, and his love for the home’s stunning desert setting, which Neutra compared to the grandness of the mystical Gobi Desert.
Plays with
Industrial Design: “American Look” / Directed by
W.F. Banes & John Thiele, 1958, USA, 28 min / The definitive Populuxe
film on 1950s automotive, industrial, interior and architectural design.
