Schindler
San Francisco: William Stout Publishers, 1997.
Paperback.
Preface by Henry-Russell Hitchcock. Architectural Documents 2. Reprint of a work first published in 1971 drawing on the initial research conducted by Esther McCoy, a one-time draughtsperson of Schindler and the preserver of his drawing archive. Includes "A Manifesto" and "Space Architecture" by R. M. Schindler.
Viennese-born Los Angeles architect Rudolph Schindler (1887-1953) was a central figure of the Modern Movement in design in the United States and Europe in the first part of the 20th century.
Schindler was trained under Otto Wagner and Adolph Loos in Vienna and worked in Louis Sullivan's Chicago before moving to Los Angeles where he apprenticed with Frankl Lloyd Wright. In Los Angeles, Schindler created a radical and intensely personal architectural conception which resulted in some of the seminal works of the period. His own house, representing an extraordinary leap in Modernist sensibility when constructed in 1921, became the scene of legendary gatherings among the area's literary and artistic elite.
Item #902535ISBN: 0965114422
8-3/4 x 8-3/4", stiff printed wrappers with folding flaps, 175pp, major buildings and projects, bibliography, index, fully illustrated with photographs and sketches in color and black and white.
A bit of light rubbing to wrappers, clean, square, bright, near fine.
Price: $40.00