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Summary
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A contemporary of Le Corbusier and one-time employee of Frank Lloyd Wright, R.M. Schindler was architect of (amongst much else of note) the Lovell Beach House in California, acknowledged to be one of the key modernist buildings of the 1920s.
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Choice Review
A welcome addition to the growing body of material on the architecture of Rudolph Schindler (1887-1953), whose best known work, the Lovel Beach House in Newport Beach, California, is rightly considered to be one of the most important buildings of the 1920s. The authors were the joint curators of the University of California at Los Angeles' year-long celebration of Schindler's work (1987), and in addition to their own articles, this publication includes several of the architect's own manifestos and programs, one of which is a new translation of his important "Modern Architecture: a Program" (1913). There are also informative articles by a number of other architectural historians and critics, and a wealth of illustrations, more than 330 in black and white and nearly 100 in color. The quality of these articles and illustrations will make this book an essential part of any graduate or architectural school library, and undergraduate institutions with a pre-architecture program should also acquire it. E. Van Schaack; Colgate University
Library Journal Review
Amazingly, there has been no full-length monograph on this California architect since David Gebhard's Schindler ( LJ 6/15/72). Schindler was one of two important modern architects in Southern California in the first half of the 20th century, the other being Richard Neutra, and his work shares with Neutra's a Viennese flavor. Sheine and March curated the year-long ``Schindlerfest'' at UCLA in 1987, and this book caps that celebration. Like the last major publication on Schindler, August Sarnitz's R.M. Schindler, Architect: 1887-1953 (Rizzoli, 1988), this generously illustrated volume compiles about 20 essays by noted scholars. While one is reading these various articles, Schindler emerges as far more interesting than important, presaging much of what has emerged as a California school in architecture over the past 25 years.-- Peter Kaufman, Boston Coll. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
