Lovell House, Modernist residence in Los Feliz, Los Angeles, United States

The Lovell House is a modernist residence in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles with white wall surfaces and horizontal ribbon windows spanning three stories. The construction rests on steel girders projecting over a steep cliff face and offers open views across the Los Angeles Basin.

Richard Neutra designed this steel frame construction between 1927 and 1929 for physician Philip Lovell as a personal residence. The completion marked one of the first instances of steel skeleton residential architecture on the West Coast of the United States.

Philip Lovell, a naturopath and Los Angeles Times health columnist, had Neutra design the house around his beliefs in natural living: a rooftop solarium, outdoor sunbathing areas and rooms arranged for maximum UV exposure. The house appeared in the 1997 film L.A. Confidential and in Beginners (2011).

The house stands at 4616 Dundee Drive in Los Feliz, on a hillside plot of about 2,000 square metres. It is a private residence, so visitors see only the exterior from the street; the steel posts and white stucco bands are visible from below. The three floors cover roughly 4,800 square feet (450 square metres).

Ford Model-A headlights illuminate the central stairwell and demonstrate the use of industrial components in domestic space. This choice reflects the contemporary idea that modern living spaces could learn from production methods and materials of industry.