Dion Neutra

Dion Neutra (October 8, 1926 – November 24, 2019) was a modernist / International style American architect and consultant who worked originally with his father, Richard Neutra (1892–1970).

Life Neutra started training with his father at age 11. He attended the University of Southern California, spending his junior year abroad studying at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology architecture program in Zurich, and graduated cum laude.

Neutra died on November 24, 2019, at his home on Neutra Place ("Reunion House") in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles at the age of 93. The long battle ended with the Cyclorama Building's demolition in 2013. In 2011, Neutra began writing a blog dedicated to the preservation of the 1954 Kronish House in Beverly Hills, California, then under threat of demolition. Neutra's campaign was successful and the building was saved. Among other projects Neutra championed was the 1963 Mariners Medical Arts Building in Newport Beach, California, which was restored in 2023. He was also concerned about the future of the Los Angeles County Hall of Records since the Records Department had been relocated to Norwalk, California.

Selected works Dion Neutra Reunion House, 1950, Silver Lake, Los Angeles Kester Avenue Elementary School, 5353 Kester Avenue, Los Angeles (with Richard Neutra), 1951, Sherman Oaks, California Kronish House, 1955, Beverly Hills, California VDL II Research House, 1966, Silver Lake, Los Angeles Treehouse Apartment, 1968, Silver Lake, Los Angeles Scheimer House, 1972, Tarzana, Los Angeles Huntington Beach Public Library, 1975, Huntington Beach, California Canfield Elementary School, 1976, West Los Angeles, California Treetops Apartments, 1980, Silver Lake, Los Angeles Claremont Graduate Management Building, 1982, Claremont, California