Barbara Lamprecht

Dr. Barbara Lamprecht is the author of “Neutra: Complete Works”; “Neutra”; and “Richard Neutra: Furniture: The Body and the Senses”. She is a qualified architectural historian specializing in the rehabilitation of modern buildings and in preparing technical evaluations and designations. Lamprecht earned her M.Arch. at California Polytechnic University, Pomona, and her Ph.D. at the University of Liverpool, where her dissertation explored the basis for Neutra’s philosophy of biorealism expressed in the relationship between body, brain, and the environment.

Supported by the Neutra Institute for Survival Through Design, she is developing the dissertation for publication in 2025. Lamprecht has served as the historical consultant in the rehabilitation of many Neutra properties including the former Garden Grove Community Church, the Jardinette Apartments, and the Lovell Health House, and has evaluated or nominated buildings by Modernist architects including Walter White; Buff, Straub, and Hensman; and Smith and Williams. She contributed a chapter for William Krisel’s Palm Springs: The Language of Modernism, 2016; “The Landscape Architect Cannot Come Later!”, Eden, 2021; and a chapter “The Desert Dialogues: Schindler, Neutra, Frey” for Albert Frey: Inventive Modernist, 2024. Lamprecht has taught all periods of architectural history and has lectured at venues such as the National Building Museum, SF MOMA, LA MOCA, and the Getty Conservation Institute. The California Preservation Foundation presented her with its Lifetime Achievement Award in 2022.