The architecture of R.M. Schindler / organized by Elizabeth A.T. Smith and Michael Darling ; essays by Michael Darling ... [et al.].

Author
Schindler, R. M. (Rudolph M.), 1887-1953 [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Los Angeles, Calif. : Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles ; New York : In association with Harry N. Abrams, c2001.
Description
284 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.

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Summary note
  • Containing many never-published drawings and photographs and spanning Schindler's early years in Vienna, his apprenticeship with Frank Lloyd Wright, and his bold contributions to West Coast modernism, this book -- which accompanies the first major Schindler retrospective -- offers the most comprehensive view of his genius to date.
  • With such masterworks as the Schindler-Chace House and the Lovell Beach House in California, the Vienna-born modernist R.M. Schindler (1887-1953) is recognized as one of the most innovative architects of the 20th century. Nearly 50 years after his death, admiration for his breathtakingly original houses and apartment buildings is at an all-time peak.
Notes
Published to accompany an exhibition held at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Calif., Feb. 25-June 3, 2001, National Building Museum, Washington, D.C., June 29-Oct. 7, 2001, and the MAK--Austrian Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria, Nov. 13, 2001-Feb. 10, 2002.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-281) and index.
Contents
  • R.M. Schindler : an architecture of invention and intuition / Elizabeth A.T. Smith
  • Life at Kings Road : as it was, 1920-1940 / Robert Sweeney
  • Schindler's metaphysics : space, the machine, and modernism / Richard Guy Wilson
  • Contextualizing "space architecture" : what the Schindler archive reveals / Kurt G.F. Helfrich
  • The vulnerable architecture of R.M. Schindler / Michael Darling.
ISBN
0810942232
LCCN
00045595
OCLC
44905073
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