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- Rudolph Michael Schindler was an Austrian-born American architect whose most important works were built in or near Los Angeles during the early to.
- Rudolph Michael Schindler was an Austrian-born American architect whose most important works were built in or near Los Angeles during the early to mid-twentieth century.
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Male, Austria/US, born 1887-09-10, died 1953-08-22
Associated with the firms network
Architectural Group for Industry and Commerce; Schindler, Rudolph M., Architect; Taliesin Fellowship
Professional History
Résumé
Designer, Ottenheimer, Stern, and Reichert, Architects, Chicago, IL, 1914-1918.
Draftsman, Frank Lloyd Wright, Taliesin Fellowship, Spring Green, WI, 02/1918-1919.
Office Superintendant, Frank Lloyd Wright, Chicago, IL, 1919; traveled back to Los Angeles to supervise Frank Lloyd Wright's Aline Barnsdall House in 1920;
Principal, Rudolph M. Schindler, Architect, Los Angeles, CA, 1921-1926, c.1928-1953. (In 1921-1923, Schindler worked on a few projects with the engineer, Clyde B. Chace.)
Partner, The Architectural Group for Industry and Commerce, (formed with Richard Neutra), Los Angeles, CA, 1926-1927.
Archives
Archival documents on Rudolph M. Schindler housed at the Architecture and Design Collection of the University Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB).
Education
College
Imperial Technical Institute, Vienna, Austria, 1906-191
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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 enrolled in the k.k. Akademie der bildenden Künste (Academy of Fine Arts) from 1910–13, studying with Otto Wagner, whose ideas about modern architecture permeated the school. Wagner believed that modern materials and methods, not historical styles, should be the source for architectural form.
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.
But perhaps the biggest influence on the young architect wa
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| Name | Rudolph Michael Schindler (born Rudolf Michael Schlesinger) | |||
| Born | September 10, 1887 | |||
| Died | August 22, 1953 | |||
| Nationality | Austria and USA | |||
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Rudolph M.Schindler practiced in the Los Angeles area from 1920 until his death, producing a series of houses and apartment buildings that explored new concepts of form, materials, and space. Critical of the reigning machine-oriented orthodoxy of most advanced European and American modernists that became known as the International Style, Schindler’s work is highly personal and individualistic. Born in Copyright ©dadtori.pages.dev 2025 | ||||