RESTORATION AND CONSERVATION PROJECTS

Dion Neutra's current interest, and principal focus, is to work on the preservation and adaptation of Neutra projects with a view to conserving as many of these icons as possible in the face of their attrition in the name of progress and change. Dion says, "I have lived to see a substantial portion of the hundreds of works that actually got built, either destroyed completely, remodeled so extensively as to lose much of their semblance to their original quality, or subjected to the ego trip of architects who claimed to be able to divine 'what the Neutras would have done' to resolve whatever new owners needed to accommodate their needs."

Dion's hope would be to be engaged by owners who care about the Neutra they have acquired to where they would at least want to hear what the 'source' would say to the question, "What would Richard Neutra have done to this building to adapt it to the new situation?"