Schindler

by David Gebhard

The Los Angeles architect Rudolph Schindler is regarded today as one of the central figures of the Modern movement. Trained in Vienna under Otto Wagner and Adolf Loos, Schindler then migrated to Los Angeles under the apprenticeship of Frank Lloyd Wright. Surrounded by a clientele of progressive thinkers in the emerging intellectual culture of Hollywood, Schindler created a radical and intensely personal architectural conception, resulting in some of the seminal works of the twentieth century. Gebhard's Schindler, first issued in 1971, is the only full-length account of Schindler's prolific yet unfulfilled career. The new edition includes 16 full-color illustrations of Schindler's renderings which were not included in the original. Charles Moore said, "David Gebhard's book about Rudolph Schindler was, for me, the most moving story of an architect that I have read since I was astonished at an early age by Frank Lloyd Wright's autobiography." Includes a preface by Henry-Russell Hitchcock.

Genres: Architecture

176 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1997

Reviews

[Owen Hatherley]

Good study of one of those odd modern architects who nobody knew quite what do with in the International Style era - spanning Viennese early modernism and De Stijl and anticipating the likes of Lautner and Lasdun. An unusual Thames and Hudson book of its time for being in a blue rather than a black cover.