Raymond Richard Neutra

President of Neutra Institute for Survival Through Design
Mission: Preserve and Use the Neutra Legacy to Promote Creative Research and Design that Benefits People and the Planet.

Dr. Neutra is the last remaining son of Austrian-American architect Richard Neutra. Inspired by his father's 1954 book Survival Through Design, Dr Neutra embarked on a career in medicine and environmental epidemiology and public health.
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Being involved with contentious environmental and occupational health policy discussions taught him that some perfectly valid evidence may be insufficient to guide policy when other ideological or economic interests make that evidence inconvenient to some stakeholders.
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He continued to be involved with the work and thoughts of his architect father and brother and their faith in a research inspired architecture that serves people and the planet. He has written articles on their ideas and a book "Cheap and Thin: Neutra and Frank Lloyd Wright".