Description

Design Council of the Denver Art Museum is pleased to host a Denver screening for the film Windshield: A Vanished Vision (2016). In the 1930s, a scion of one of New England’s oldest and wealthiest families, John Nicholas Brown, and his wife Anne boldly embrace modernism and select the young and ambitious architect Richard Neutra to build them a summer home that they name ‘Windshield’. Through an enormously detailed correspondence, patron and architect discuss every detail of the house’s design and together pursue cutting-edge technology, much of which had only previously been used in commercial architecture. Then, just weeks after the Browns move in, tragedy strikes. Directed by granddaughter, Elissa Brown, the film lovingly weaves fascinating home movies with son J. Carter Brown’s inspiring memories about the summer house of his youth and the voices of architectural historians Thomas S. Hines and Dietrich Neumann.