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1946 · Palm Springs, Palm Springs, United States

Kaufmann Desert House image

House in Palm Springs, California

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Kaufmann Desert House

Palm Springs, Palm Springs, United States · Exact work coordinates

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House in Palm Springs, California

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Field	Kaufmann Desert House 1946 · Palm Springs, Palm Springs, United States	Souto de Moura Arquitectos 1980 · Porto, Porto District, Portugal
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1946	1980
Place	Palm Springs, Palm Springs, United States	Porto, Porto District, Portugal
Place context	Palm Springs, Palm Springs, United States	Representative site: Real, Dume e Semelhe, Real, Dume e Semelhe, Portugal
Climate	26°C · 13.2h daylight · 9 km/h wind	17°C · 13.6h daylight · 10 km/h wind · via Estádio Municipal de Braga
Focus	House	3 works in corpus
Architects	Richard Neutra	Eduardo Souto de Moura
Linked context	Bureaus Richard Neutra	Notable works Estádio Municipal de Braga Casa das Historias Paula Rego Trindade station (Porto Metro)
Typologies	house	sports venue museum art museum cultural building civic building
Materials	Not recorded yet.	concrete
Carbon signals	house gives us a typology starting point even though the work does not have a recorded material palette yet. No dominant drivers yet.	Concrete look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Concrete
Lower-carbon levers	No levers surfaced yet.	Look for lower-clinker mixes, reused structure, and scope reductions before fine-grained product swaps.
Accessibility	Access not recorded	2 of 2 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.