Born in Vienna, 8 April 1892, Richard Josef Neutra was an influential American architect and writer of Austrian birth.  He entered the Technische Hochschule in Vienna in 1911 but did not graduate until 1917 after serving in the Austrian army.  In Vienna he became well acquainted with the work of Otto Wagner and attended many of the weekly meetings held by Adolf Loos.  In 1912 he met Rudolph Schindler, and, like him and like many other Europeans at the time, he was deeply affect (showing 500 of 1415 characters).