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The Schindler House. also known as the Kings Road House or Schindler Chace House, located in West Hollywood, California was designed by architect R. M. Schindler. The Schindler House is considered to be the first house ever built in the Modern style.
Oct 16, 2012 · He hired Schindler to design his house in 1925. 2. The house is located on the top of a ridge, with views of the Los Angeles River Valley to the east and (when originally built but now blocked by other homes) of the Silver Lake Reservoir to the west. (plan, figure 1) Like the Harris and Oliver houses, the How is moved off the level area of the ...
Dec 13, 1987 · The house has been open to the public on a limited schedule for much of the time since Schindler's widow, Pauline, died in 1977, but for most of these years it looked like a curiosity more than a ...
Sep 19, 2016 · Produced by Michael Reynolds. Early in his career, the Viennese Modernist R.M. Schindler made a pilgrimage to the Southwest, where he toured the dwellings of the early Pueblo Indians, the Anasazi ...
Schindler’s earliest work, from 1921 to 1928, initially contained certain Wrightian mannerisms, but he also explored the possibilities of concrete and southern California’s sybaritic living. His King’s Road, or Schindler-Chase House (1921–22) in Hollywood was designed for two couples who shared common living spaces but who each had ...
Rudolph Michael Schindler was an Austrian-born American architect who practiced in Southern California during the years 1920-53. R.M. Schindler was born in Vienna in 1887 and educated at the Bau- (Architektur) schule of the k.k. Technische Hochschule (Polytechnic Institute) in Vienna from 1906–11. Before he had finished his degree there, he ...
Significance: Rudolph M. Schindler designed this residence for himself and his friend, Clyde B. Chase; begun in 1921, the building was completed in 1922. Tapered modular concrete wall slabs were poured on the floor slab and then tilted into the vertical position. Massive blank walls are relieved by narrow slits of glass between the panels.
