Schindler’s pioneering work has gone onto inspire the likes of Steven Holl, while the house itself has accommodated such august figures as Richard Neutra, Edward Weston and John Cage. This landmark of West Coast Modernism, built in 1922 in West Hollywood by Viennese émigré architect, Rudolph Schindler, is devoid of clearly defined living, dining and sleeping quarters, and was, instead, conceived as a modular, changeable live-work building for two families.Īs we explain in our Schindler book, the architect purposefully turned away from simple problems and conventions of building construction and instead focused what he described as Space Architecture, or the way in which architects could now control and create space, climate, light, mood. You’d be hard pushed to find a bedroom in the Schindler House. Image courtesy of the MAK Center Edmund de Waal's homage to John Cage in LAįor his debut Los Angeles exhibition the British writer and ceramicist draws on LA’s modernist past Courtesy of Friends of the Schindler House, gift of Mrs. When a kidnapping threat endangered her pregnant sister, Domino Graham agreed to act as a decoy. Floor plan of the Schindler House, including gardens.
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