A Visual Lecture
Hollywood and Uncle Sam:
Richard Neutra in the Great Depression
The country's foremost Neutra scholar explores how Neutra and other L.A. architects and builders survived the economic crisis of the '30's by finding work funded by New Deal agencies and the relatively recession-proof Hollywood film industry.
Thomas S. Hines is professor emeritus of history and architecture at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he has taught cultural, urban and architectural history for many years. Hines is the author of Richard Neutra and the Search for Modern Architecture, Burnham of Chicago: Architect and Planner, William Faulkner and the Tangible Past: The Architecture of Yoknapatawpha, and Irving Gill and the Architecture of Reform, as well as numerous articles in a wide variety of periodicals. In 1982, Hines was co-curator, with Arthur Drexler, of the Neutra retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art. He has held Guggenheim, Fulbright, NEH, and Getty fellowships. In 1994, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
