Rudolph Schindler (architect)

Rudolph Michael Schindler ( born September 10, 1887 in Vienna, † August 22 1953 in Los Angeles, California ) was an American architect of Austrian origin who was active primarily in the Greater Los Angeles and - in particular within the United States - as an important representatives of "classic modernism" in architecture is considered.

Life

Rudolph Michael Schindler studied from 1906 to 1913 civil engineering and architecture in Vienna. There he was with Richard Neutra student of Otto Wagner and Adolf Loos. 1914 Schindler traveled to New York City and then on to Chicago, where he worked for three years as a draftsman in an office. In 1917, he came into the office of Frank Lloyd Wright, where he remained four years, largely independently transacted projects and construction management for which he took over at the house Barnsdale in Los Angeles 1920. 1919 married Sophie Pauline Schindler Gibling.

In 1921 he designed and built together with his wife, his friend, the Civil Clyde Chace and his wife Marian, a residential building with an office in West Hollywood. The multi-winged building includes separate living areas, a common kitchen and office space. It is one of Schindler's most important buildings, in particular the close relationship of interior and exterior spaces are emphasized. 1926 Richard Neutra moved with his family to the Schindlers in the house. Both founded the " Architectural Group for Industry and Commerce " and developed a number of projects together, but quarreled 1930.

1925-1926 was the Lovell beach house in Newport Beach, which stands out above all by its two floors completely face- concrete structure. This project is one of the most important works Schindler. It was built for Philip M. Lovell, after whom the building is named.

1946 built Schindler 's house Kallis for an artist in a far more expressive design language with inclined wall and roof panels and high resolution of land into individual elements, from 1948 to 1949 the house Janson as a three-storey building on a steep slope with upward -widening base areas of floors.

1951 was diagnosed with cancer Schindler, two years later, he died on August 22 in a hospital.

Schindler designed and built mainly private houses, for the most part in Southern California. Total, he handled about 330 projects, of which approximately 150 were executed. Characteristics of Schindler's buildings are an accurate analysis of the topography (many buildings are in some steep slopes and use this often spatially by graded, step-like arranged volumes of space ), and its form language, which is characterized by clean, sharp lines, a pronounced differentiation of individual volumes and spatial situations as well as through open space transitions. The influence of Wright and Loos ' is herein identified. Schindler is considered an important thought leader for the planning of Case Study Houses.

Depending on the construction task and situation vary the materials between solid elements with raw plaster or concrete surfaces and fine wood supports with Glasausfachungen. The preferred use of reinforced concrete as a building material at that time low skills of the contractors, many buildings are sixty to eighty years in very poor condition.

His work has received little attention during his lifetime by the architectural critics and theorists, probably because it is rarely acted to large construction projects, but mostly smaller houses and villas, but experienced in Europe and the U.S. since the 1980s, a renaissance in the criticism.

In 1994, the Vienna Museum of Applied Arts, the " MAK Center for Art and Architecture " as a new field office, which housed now in three major buildings ( Rudolph Schindler House, Pearl M. Mackey Apartment House, Fitzpatrick - Leland House ) of the Architects in Los Angeles is. Attention will be focused new trends and interdisciplinary developments in the fields of visual arts and architecture, which pushed through scholarships and projects and be extended by changing exhibitions.

Buildings

  • Schindler House / Chace, 1921-1922 North Kings Road, West Hollywood
  • Beach house Lovell, 1925-1926, Ocean Avenue, Newport Beach
  • House Buck, 1934 Eighth Street, Los Angeles
  • House Walker, 1935-1936, Kenilworth Avenue, Los Angeles
  • Apartment building Mackey, 1939-1940, South Cochran Avenue, Los Angeles
  • Baptist Church " Bethlehem ", 1944 South Compton Avenue, Los Angeles
  • House and Alelier Kallis, 1946 Multiview Drive, Studio City
  • House Pressburger, 1945-1947, Agnes Street, Studio City
  • Laurelwood Apartments, 1948-1949, Laurelwood Drive, Studio City
  • House Janson, 1948-1949, Skyline Drive, Los Angeles
  • House carpenters, 1949-1950, Greenfield Avenue, Westwood
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