A Virtual Look Into Richard Neutra's Unbuilt Case Study House #13, The Alpha House

Of the four homes designed by Richard Neutra for the Case Study Houses program, post-war thought experiments commissioned by Arts & Architecture, only one was ever realized. In the imaginary village of the program's many unbuilt homes, next to #6, the Omega house, stands #13, named Alpha. Archilogic’s 3D model gives us a unique chance to experience this innovative concept home.

Each of Neutra’s projects was designed for a family of five, and each reveals his psychoanalytic approach to architecture, in which the house itself is an intimate part of family relationships, as important as the personalities involved. (Neutra was personally acquainted with Freud, and a committed follower of birth trauma theorist Otto Rank.) Underlining this Freudian view, his imaginary clients are not just neighbours—they are related; Mrs Alpha being sister to Mrs Omega.

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Cite: Robynn Weldon. "A Virtual Look Into Richard Neutra's Unbuilt Case Study House #13, The Alpha House" 30 Nov 2016. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/800475/a-virtual-look-into-richard-neutras-unbuilt-case-study-house-number-13-the-alpha-house> ISSN 0719-8884

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用虚拟现实技术欣赏Richard Neutra尚未实现的阿尔法实验性住房

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