The Oyler House: Richard Neutra's Desert Retreat | movie | 2012 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

In 1959, a government employee named Richard Oyler, living in the tiny desert town of Lone Pine, California, asked world | dG1fbDh0QmViQkpxTFE

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00:00I could be in the living room or wherever and I'm outdoors too, you know, the full spectrum.

00:27That's a wonderful thing.

00:29You can't imagine what it is on a moonlight night here, you know, or a dark night when

00:36the stars are just busting themselves.

00:44Richard Neutra was an architect who studied and was principal in the beginnings of modern

00:51architecture.

00:52Richard Neutra, my father, was on the cover of Time Magazine in 1949, I guess.

00:58And I just made up my mind that this is what I, I want to live in one of his houses.

01:03And I wrote him and told him who I was, nobody.

01:08I knew just by his office that he was a very important man.

01:12And I thought, he's not going to build a house for me.

01:17We walked around the site and he loved it.

01:20He says, this is, this is unusual.

01:23He says, there's nothing else any place like it.

01:27He said that in standing there, he had not seen such a great expanse of open space since

01:33he'd been in the Gobi Desert.

01:37That gave him the opportunity to create with this background setting of the Sierra Nevada

01:42mountains and these magnificent rocks in front, one of the most unique and magical houses

01:49in his career.

01:51And basically it's unknown.

01:54We had this client-architect relationship that got to be more of a personal relationship.

02:03You know, he was so far ahead of his time, 60 years at least ahead of his time.

02:07I think now we look at these homes and we understand them.

02:11This is deviant behavior to build a house like that.

02:14And I would say that it's deviant in a good way.

02:18I think it was the love of my life.

02:22You get on a site like this and you see everything clearly, how things really are.