Neutra's Overway-Schiff House

Overway Schiff House Richard Neutra Stairs Detail

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Ensconced in the Marina neighborhood of San Francisco, the Schiff house was completed by Richard Neutra in 1938 for a pair of Berliners who wanted to move down the hill from Lombard Street. The occasion for the tour was a lecture sponsored by the San Francisco chapter of the AIA and featuring Neutra's son, Raymond, who wrote quite well about his father for Dwell in 2007. He walked us through his lauded father's career, biography, and thinking, and ended with an overview of the famed VDL compound in Los Angeles, where he grew up, his father and brother worked, and is now in something of a state of disrepair.

— Aaron Britt

As you head up the stairs of the Schiff-Overway house, you know that you're in store for a treat. This is a house very much of the 1930s and it feels just right. Photo by Mark Darley.

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