After earning his architecture degree and serving in the Imperial Army in WWI, Richard Josef Neutra made his way to Berlin, where he worked under the tutelage of Eric Mendelsohn and was associated with the pivotal Bauhaus design school (returning as a guest teacher in 1930). After moving to America, he landed in Los Angeles and completed the Lovell Health House in 1929, still recognized as a Masterwork of Modernist Design. He designed hundreds of projects around the world and is known for his conceptual and practical, steel and glass designs, with a vision towards environment, ecology, and livability.