The house was essentially finished in 1922, and Schindler lived and practiced there for the rest of his career.įor Schindler, theory and practice were intimately connected. After a visit with his wife Pauline to Yosemite in October 1921, Schindler decided to stay in Los Angeles and build his own house and studio at Kings Road.
Los Angeles, on the other hand, was at the beginning of an economic and population boom that coincided with his arrival there. Schindler had always meant to return to Vienna, but World War I and the unfavorable economic conditions that followed in Europe discouraged his return. In 1918, Wright finally hired Schindler to work on the Imperial Hotel, leaving him in charge of his office during his travels to Japan Wright sent Schindler to Los Angeles in 1920 to supervise construction of his most important American commission of the time, the Hollyhock house for oil heiress Aline Barnsdall. There he saw an architecture of space more advanced than even that of his teachers and he went to Chicago in 1914, hoping to work for Wright. Like other young architects in Vienna, including Richard Neutra, who later joined him in Los Angeles, Schindler was also drawn to Adolf Loos and his forceful lectures and writings arguing against ornament in architecture and for an architecture of complex interior space with highly articulated sections, later codified as the raumplan.īut perhaps the biggest influence on the young architect was the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, which he saw in 1911 in the Wasmuth portfolio. Wagner believed that modern materials and methods, not historical styles, should be the source for architectural form. Akademie der bildenden Künste (Academy of Fine Arts) from 1910–13, studying with Otto Wagner, whose ideas about modern architecture permeated the school. Before he had finished his degree there, he enrolled in the k.k. Technische Hochschule (Polytechnic Institute) in Vienna from 1906–11. Schindler was born in Vienna in 1887 and educated at the Bau-(Architektur) schule of the k.k. Rudolph Michael Schindler was an Austrian-born American architect who practiced in Southern California during the years 1920-53.
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