Featured image credit: Codera23 Even casual fans of modernism need no introduction to Richard Neutra. The Austrian-American architect was integral to the popularization of mid-century designs with his forward-thinking structures peppering Southern California. It was almost as if he were using human progress itself as a building material. To see some of Neutra’s most iconic masterpieces, set your coordinates for Palm Springs where he’s a revered star, celebrated most emphatically in the city’s annual Modernism Week . But if you want to see where Neutra lived and worked, then you’re better off driving over to Silver Lake. It’s the neighborhood where his legendary Neutra VDL house still stands to this day. Even Legends Need Loans Sometimes Photo credit: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection at the UCLA Library Constructed in 1932, the Neutra VDL house was distinguished from other Neutra homes in that the architect himself planned to reside in it ...