SCHINDLER
HOUSE
Austrian-born architect Rudolph M. Schindler's great social experiment in communal living—a house meant to
accommodate Schindler, his wife Pauline and another couple—was complete by 1922. The living situation may
have been unorthodox, but the architecture was revolutionary, a concrete and redwood residence that included
four rooms, one for each individual dweller, along with shared spaces and outdoor sleeping porches on the roof.
The result was indoor-outdoor living long before it was Southern California ubiquity. In its early years, Schindler
House functioned as a kind of salon for left-wing Los Angeles, and an incubator for Schindler's ideas to flourish
into designs for renowned modernist masterpieces. Today, among these illustrious ranks, Schindler House and
studio headquarters the MAK Center for Art & Architecture.
S C H I N D L E R H O U S E F RO M F RO N T YA R D R . A . S C H I N D L E R , 1922
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I N T E R I O R V I EW O F T H E S C H I N D L E R H O U S E
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S C H I N D L E R H O U S E F RO M R E A R C O U RT YA R D
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