{"id":107983,"date":"2022-04-04T09:15:12","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T13:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/architizer.com\/blog\/?p=107983"},"modified":"2022-04-03T15:36:15","modified_gmt":"2022-04-03T19:36:15","slug":"neutra-schindler-architecture-health-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.arc.ht\/blog\/inspiration\/stories\/neutra-schindler-architecture-health-los-angeles\/","title":{"rendered":"Take a Deep Breath: Neutra, Schindler and the Architecture of Health in Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<em>Judging is now under way for Architizer\u2019s 3rd Annual\u00a0One Photo Challenge. Stay tuned for our Top 100 list of finalists in the coming weeks.<\/em>\n<p>The effects of the Covid-19 pandemic coupled with an increasingly volatile climate due to global warming are just a few of many reasons why we are spending more time inside than ever before. According to a recent study, most people in the Western World spend up to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/7500165.epdf\">93% of their time<\/a> indoors \u2014 a percentage that increases in wealthier nations. As we spend more of our time indoors, there is no doubt that architecture and its relationship to our health needs to be re-examined through a new lens.<\/p>\n<p>While the devastating effects of climate change have come into clearer focus in recent years, throughout modern history, architects have explored the impact that good design can have on human health. Le Corbusier placed the figure at the heart of his urban schemes, and famously developed &#8220;Le Modulor,&#8221; which builds upon the tradition of the Vitruvian Man in an attempt to discover the mathematical proportions of the body to improve both the appearance and function of architecture. He was also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2009\/mar\/11\/le-corbusier-my-miserable-day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">long obsessed<\/a> with his own health and fitness and began exercising regularly as a way to combat fatigue after struggling with various ailments as a young man. Le Corbusier subsequently saw architecture as an opportunity to not only symbolize the body but to actively redesign it.<\/p>\n<p>The desire to optimize, purify and rehabilitate the body through architecture has often flourished in locations where the consequences of industrialization and climate change can most clearly be seen. Over the last 100 years, Los Angeles has become the prototypical site for a heightened focus on the body and wellness. Paradoxically, there are few places in North America where pollution is more thickly concentrated and visible on a daily basis within the air.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_107995\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-107995\" class=\"size-large wp-image-107995 lazy lazy_media_item\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.arc.ht\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/13693301A-1024x758.jpg?resize=1024%2C758&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"758\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.staging.arc.ht\/wp-content\/uploads\/13693301A.jpg?resize=1024%2C758&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.staging.arc.ht\/wp-content\/uploads\/13693301A.jpg?resize=300%2C222&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.staging.arc.ht\/wp-content\/uploads\/13693301A.jpg?resize=768%2C569&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.staging.arc.ht\/wp-content\/uploads\/13693301A.jpg?resize=1536%2C1137&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.staging.arc.ht\/wp-content\/uploads\/13693301A.jpg?resize=66%2C50&amp;ssl=1 66w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.staging.arc.ht\/wp-content\/uploads\/13693301A.jpg?resize=400%2C296&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.staging.arc.ht\/wp-content\/uploads\/13693301A.jpg?w=1688&amp;ssl=1 1688w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-107995\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Smog, Los Angeles; William A. Garnett (1949). \u00a9 Estate of William A. Garnett<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Angelenos are increasingly confronted with pollution from a complex mixture of sources, including the automotive industry, industrial production systems and record breaking wildfires each year. The consequences of poor air quality, along with a culture that idolizes the human form through film and television, have made Los Angeles the Mecca for self-improvement, health and longevity.<\/p>\n<p>As far back as the early 1900\u2019s, architects such as Richard Neutra and R.M. Schindler were hard at work developing their study of medicine and health through the lens of modern domestic architecture. Neutra and Schindler, who carried on a strained friendship throughout the years, constructed a series of \u201chealth homes\u201d for private clients across Los Angeles, putting forth a vision of design as a therapeutic defense against the disastrous effects of modern life. In the context of Los Angeles, modern architecture was inseparable from a new lifestyle which sought to improve health, fitness and well-being.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_107994\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-107994\" class=\"size-large wp-image-107994 lazy lazy_media_item\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.arc.ht\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lovell-House-Approach-1024x825.png?resize=1024%2C825&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"825\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.staging.arc.ht\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lovell-House-Approach.png?resize=1024%2C825&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.staging.arc.ht\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lovell-House-Approach.png?resize=300%2C242&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.staging.arc.ht\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lovell-House-Approach.png?resize=768%2C619&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.staging.arc.ht\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lovell-House-Approach.png?resize=1536%2C1238&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.staging.arc.ht\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lovell-House-Approach.png?resize=372%2C300&amp;ssl=1 372w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.staging.arc.ht\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lovell-House-Approach.png?w=1800&amp;ssl=1 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-107994\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Lovell House seen from Dundee Drive , Los Angeles, California. \u00a9 J. Paul Getty Trust. Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (2004.R.10)<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>In 1913, Schindler wrote an architectural manifesto advocating for what has since become known as \u201cspace architecture\u201d, an attempt to conjure up a transcendental experience comprised of light air and temperature. Within his manifesto, Schindler expressed a strong desire to blur the boundaries between the exterior and interior to allow the garden to enter the home. While now more commonly understood, the idea that increased access to light, air and nature within architectural space could improve one\u2019s mental and physical health was innovative and fundamental to Schindler\u2019s work from the moment he arrived in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the best example of this new style of architecture was the Lovell Health House, designed and built by Richard Neutra between 1927 and 1929 for the physician and naturopath Philip Lovell. As a health guru himself, Dr. Lovell saw modern architecture as the preeminent model for health and even an opportunity for the inhabitant to reconstruct themselves while within its walls.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_107991\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-107991\" class=\"size-large wp-image-107991 lazy lazy_media_item\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.arc.ht\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Schindler-House-Los-Angeles-Calif.-1982-1024x800.png?resize=1024%2C800&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.staging.arc.ht\/wp-content\/uploads\/Schindler-House-Los-Angeles-Calif.-1982.png?resize=1024%2C800&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.staging.arc.ht\/wp-content\/uploads\/Schindler-House-Los-Angeles-Calif.-1982.png?resize=300%2C234&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.staging.arc.ht\/wp-content\/uploads\/Schindler-House-Los-Angeles-Calif.-1982.png?resize=768%2C600&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.staging.arc.ht\/wp-content\/uploads\/Schindler-House-Los-Angeles-Calif.-1982.png?resize=1536%2C1200&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.staging.arc.ht\/wp-content\/uploads\/Schindler-House-Los-Angeles-Calif.-1982.png?resize=625%2C487&amp;ssl=1 625w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.staging.arc.ht\/wp-content\/uploads\/Schindler-House-Los-Angeles-Calif.-1982.png?resize=384%2C300&amp;ssl=1 384w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.staging.arc.ht\/wp-content\/uploads\/Schindler-House-Los-Angeles-Calif.-1982.png?w=1784&amp;ssl=1 1784w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-107991\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Schindler House (Los Angeles, Calif.), 1982. \u00a9 J. Paul Getty Trust. Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (2004.R.10)<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cWhen we learn to build our bodies with the same careful precision and the same scientific accuracy with which the modern builder constructs his houses, we will finally become healthy,\u201d Richard Neutra once said.<\/p>\n<p>Lovell\u2019s home was specifically organized around his daily routine of exercise and diet strategies, and included en-suite sleeping porches outside every room, sunbathing locations, hydrotherapy equipment and even built-in enema fixtures with various douches and nozzle devices, thermostatically controlled. In more ways than one, the architecture itself was designed to enter the body in an attempt to maximize physiological improvement.<\/p>\n<p>In Neutra\u2019s influential book entitled <em>Survival through Design<\/em> (1954), he argued that the very survival of the human species depended on having designers focus on \u201cphysiological space.\u201d Influenced by developments in modern psychoanalysis, Neutra conceived of space as operating between biology and psychology in an effort to defend against the harsh effects of the modern world.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_107996\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-107996\" class=\"size-large wp-image-107996 lazy lazy_media_item\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.arc.ht\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\u00a9-J.-Paul-Getty-Trust.-Getty-Research-Institute-Los-Angeles-2004.R.10A-1024x815.png?resize=1024%2C815&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"815\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.staging.arc.ht\/wp-content\/uploads\/\u00a9-J.-Paul-Getty-Trust.-Getty-Research-Institute-Los-Angeles-2004.R.10A.png?resize=1024%2C815&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.staging.arc.ht\/wp-content\/uploads\/\u00a9-J.-Paul-Getty-Trust.-Getty-Research-Institute-Los-Angeles-2004.R.10A.png?resize=300%2C239&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.staging.arc.ht\/wp-content\/uploads\/\u00a9-J.-Paul-Getty-Trust.-Getty-Research-Institute-Los-Angeles-2004.R.10A.png?resize=768%2C611&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.staging.arc.ht\/wp-content\/uploads\/\u00a9-J.-Paul-Getty-Trust.-Getty-Research-Institute-Los-Angeles-2004.R.10A.png?resize=1536%2C1222&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.staging.arc.ht\/wp-content\/uploads\/\u00a9-J.-Paul-Getty-Trust.-Getty-Research-Institute-Los-Angeles-2004.R.10A.png?resize=377%2C300&amp;ssl=1 377w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.staging.arc.ht\/wp-content\/uploads\/\u00a9-J.-Paul-Getty-Trust.-Getty-Research-Institute-Los-Angeles-2004.R.10A.png?w=1800&amp;ssl=1 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-107996\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Lovell House \u00a9 J. Paul Getty Trust. Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (2004.R.10)<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>The monitoring of the health and performance of the body within space as a way to combat industrial and environmental threats became ingrained in many Californian\u2019s lives, and certainly contributed to L.A.\u2019s obsession with fitness and wellness. Daily exercise, bodybuilding, dieting, therapy and aesthetic surgery have since become part of the continuous construction and renovation of the human body.<\/p>\n<p>Neutra and Schindler\u2019s work embodies an idea that may be more prudent now than ever: that design and architecture are consistently positioned against the prevailing environmental or physiological disorder of the day. As our climate becomes increasingly unstable, will we have to redesign our bodies to continue to survive as a species and what role will architecture play?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>Judging is now under way for Architizer\u2019s 3rd Annual\u00a0One Photo Challenge. Stay tuned for our Top 100 list of finalists in the coming weeks.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A look back at two seminal mid-century architects in Los Angeles who explored architecture&#8217;s power to improve the health of its inhabitants.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":361,"featured_media":108050,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"architizer_featured_type":"insert","architizer_featured_image":"","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"architizer_project":[],"architizer_brand":[],"architizer_firm":[],"architizer_product":[],"class_list":["post-107983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inspiration","category-stories"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Take a Deep Breath: Neutra, Schindler and the Architecture of Health in Los Angeles<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A look back at two seminal mid-century architects in Los Angeles who explored architecture\u2019s power to improve the health of its inhabitants.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.arc.ht\/blog\/inspiration\/stories\/neutra-schindler-architecture-health-los-angeles\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Take a Deep Breath: Neutra, Schindler and the Architecture of Health in Los Angeles\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"What sparked L.A.\u2019s obsession with fitness and wellness? 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