John Bertram (born July 28, 1966) is an American architect. He is best known for restoring homes designed by midcentury modernist architect

Richard Neutra Richard Joseph Neutra ( ; 8 April 1892 – 16 April 1970) was an Austrian-American architect. Living and building for most of his career in Southern California, he came to be considered a prominent and important modernist architect. His most ...

. Bertram graduated from the

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in 1994, where he was the recipient of the American Institute of Architects Henry Adams Certificate for Excellence in the Scholarly Pursuit of Architecture, the AIA's Scholarship for Academic Excellence, and the Gertraud A. Wood Traveling Fellowship. After working in

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and

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, Bertram moved to Los Angeles in 1997, where he joined

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as Project Architect/Project Manager on the restoration and remodeling of Richard Neutra's 1955 Brown House. He founded Bertram Architects in 1999. Bertram married actress/writer

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in 2002.

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External links

Bertram Architects website
1966 births 20th-century American architects Yale School of Architecture alumni Living people 21st-century American architects {{US-architect-20C-stub