Mountain Modern From Scratch Raymond Richard Neutra Can you imagine two people who felled and milled their own trees and by themselves with the aid of heavy equipment built a series of sophisticated modern dwellings in a forest one hourʼs drive from the nearest paved road? Meet Charles and Vanna Rae Bello! I met Charles half a century ago, when he was an apprentice in the studio/residence of my father Richard Neutra. He was living in what used to be my room with another apprentice and I was home from college for the summer. We liked to go up to Griffith park and talk philosophy over bread, wine and cheese Charlie had built several houses for his father even before he got his degree in architecture and engineering at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. He had become disenchanted with his work with some San Francisco business oriented architects and chose to come and work with my Dad and then later with Henry Hill and landscape architects.........(name?) in Berkeley. He admired the work of Italian