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Become the proud tenant of a Neutra-designed office space in Los Angeles

2016-08-09T12:49:00-04:00

If you’re looking for some exceptional LA office space, you’re in luck. The Neutra Institute Museum in Silver Lake, Los Angeles—formerly known as the Neutra Office Building—is leasing 160 square feet in the front of the building for $1,200 a month to a “sympathetic Neutra fan/tenant”. The rest of the 1200 square feet space is intended to house a museum or gallery that would “become a cultural center for Silverlake”, among other programs.

Currently, an attorney rents the space. Before being converted into an institute, Richard and Dion Neutra Architects and Associates occupied the site. The office space that’s available for lease must be “voice activity tolerant” as it’s adjacent to a conference room.

The newly-created Neutra Institute Museum will create an “community room”-cum-gallery for artists to display work; host exhibitions curated by local museums such as LACMA; display parts of the Neutra archive; and serve as a retail space. It will also develop support programming for the VD...

‘The Princes of Kings Road’: Neutra and Schindler the subject of a new site-specific play

2015-06-10T18:47:00-04:00

Next September, the historic Neutra Institute and Museum in Silverlake will host a new play by Tom Lazarus entitled ‘The Princes of Kings Road.’ Based on a true events, the production imagines a reunion between the two iconic figures of LA modernism, Rudolf Schindler and Richard Neutra.

The architects have a storied history, which was recounted in a Vanity Fair article from 1999. After building his West Hollywood home (now the MAK Center), Schindler and his partner invited Neutra and his wife to live with them. The house was originally intended as a communal living space for two couples, with open-air "sleeping baskets" rather than bedrooms. But after five years of cohabitation and professional partnership – the two architects collaborated on an entry for the the League of Nations palace in Geneva – their relationship turned sour, transforming into a bitter rivalry.

Lazarus' play imagines Schindler and Neutra reunited in a room at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital (now the bright blue Scien...