A Virtual Look Into Richard Neutra's Case Study House #20, the Bailey House

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The Bailey house—one of Richard Neutra’s four Case Study designs for Arts & Architecture—forms one of five Bluff houses, standing high above the ocean. The brief was to create a low-budget home for a young family, with just two bedrooms, but offering the possibility of expansion as time went by (which did in fact transpire; additional Neutra-designed wings were later built).

Neutra employed the same indoor-outdoor philosophy that can be seen at work in his unbuilt Alpha and Omega houses, using large sliding glass doors to create light and a visual sense of space, as well as ensuring that the house physically opened up to, as he put it, “borrow space from the outdoors.” With this sunny Californian ocean-view setting, it made perfect sense to use the back garden and terrace as living and dining room.

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Cite: Robynn Weldon. "A Virtual Look Into Richard Neutra's Case Study House #20, the Bailey House" 10 May 2017. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/870953/a-virtual-look-into-richard-neutras-case-study-house-number-20-the-bailey-house> ISSN 0719-8884

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