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Mountain Home Air Force Base 1958 Senior Officers' Housing, General's Residence, Rabeni Street (originally Ivy Street), Mountain Home, Elmore County, ID

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Significance: The three senior officers' houses at Mountain Home Air Force Base were constructed as part of the 270-unit Armed Services Housing Project, a collaboration between the architectural firms of Richard J. Neutra & Robert E. Alexander of Los Angeles and Hummel, Hummel & Jones of Boise, Idaho. Prominent architect Richard Neutra designed the three officers' housing units in 1958 and construction was completed in 1959. The housing reflects elements of the International Style, of which Neutra is considered a master, and is the only example of his work in Idaho.

Survey number: HABS ID-118-B-1

Building/structure dates: 1959 Initial Construction

The Bauhaus was influenced by 19th and early-20th-century artistic directions such as the Arts and Crafts movement, as well as Art Nouveau and its many international incarnations, including the Jugendstil and Vienna Secession. In the Weimar Republic, a renewed liberal spirit allowed an upsurge of radical experimentation in all the arts. The most important influence on Bauhaus was modernism, a movement whose origins lay as early as the 1880s. After World War Germans of left-wing views were influenced by the cultural experimentation that followed the Russian Revolution, such as constructivism. The Bauhaus style, however, also known as the International Style, was marked by harmony between the function of an object or a building and its design. Bauhaus is characterized by simplified forms, rationality, and functionality, and the idea that mass production was reconcilable with the individual artistic spirit.

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international style architectural elements officers quarters military facilities mountain home idaho home mountain home air force base senior officers senior officers general residence rabeni rabeni street ivy ivy street mountain home elmore elmore county air force idaho robert e alexander eriksson and peters baldwin tarin erickson jessica forbes historic american buildings survey hummel and jones hummel ann m keen richard j neutra michelle wurtz general residence ultra high resolution high resolution architecture usaf air force base united states history bauhaus library of congress
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1933 - 1970
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Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Neutra, Richard J., architect
Alexander, Robert E., architect
Hummel, Hummel & Jones, architect
Baldwin, Eriksson & Peters, landscape architect
Wurtz, Michelle, project manager
Forbes, Jessica, historian
Keen, Ann M., historian
Erickson, Tarin, historian
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Bauhaus

The most influential modernist art school of the 20th century
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Mountain Home (Idaho) ,  43.13295, -115.69120
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Library of Congress
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No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html

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international style architectural elements officers quarters military facilities mountain home idaho home mountain home air force base senior officers senior officers general residence rabeni rabeni street ivy ivy street mountain home elmore elmore county air force idaho robert e alexander eriksson and peters baldwin tarin erickson jessica forbes historic american buildings survey hummel and jones hummel ann m keen richard j neutra michelle wurtz general residence ultra high resolution high resolution architecture usaf air force base united states history bauhaus library of congress