Robert Stacy-Judd: Morris Plan Bank (Long Beach, Calif.)
The Morris Plan Bank was a national banking system which primarily loaned money to middle-class people who had trouble obtaining regular loans. The Bank was started in Virginia in 1910, and soon had locations all across the country, including Los Angeles and Long Beach. This bank was possibly located on Pine Avenue in downtown Long Beach.
Robert Stacy-Judd papers, Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University of California, Santa Barbara
Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University of California, Santa Barbara
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Robert Stacy-Judd: National Hall project (Los Angeles, Calif.)
The National Hall project, for the client Paramount Group, was a group of buildings two city blocks square, at the corner of Sunset and Vine in Hollywood. The project was to include a 23,000 seat auditorium, a 13-story department store, office buildings, hotel, and a 2,500 seat theater. Each of these components was to feature Stacy-Judd's signature "Mayan" style decorative motifs.
Robert Stacy-Judd: Philosophical Research Society (Los Angeles, Calif.)
The founder of the Philosophical Research Society, Manely P. Hall, had commissioned buildings by Stacy-Judd previously, due to their shared interest in Mayan design. The Library in the Philosophical Research Society was designed to hold the many rare and unique books in the Hall collection.
Robert Stacy-Judd: Soboba Hot Springs Hotel (San Jacinto, Calif.)
As travel by personal car became more feasible during the 1920s, the mountains surrounding Los Angeles on the east became weekend getaways for residents. The use of hot springs for relaxation and to cure various ailments was a popular attraction. The Soboba Hot Springs Hotel filled both of those requirements for Los Angeles residents. Stacy-Judd combined his vast interest in Native American, Mexican, and Central American cultures with an Americanized version of different types of dwelling units. The cultural appropriation of native housing styles created a 'village' of native peoples who did not inhabit the same locations. While the hotel was popular for many years, it was eventually demolished and a hotel run by the local Native American tribe now bears its name.
Robert Stacy-Judd: Stacy-Judd house (Minot, ND)
The house Robert Stacy-Judd designed and built for himself and his first wife is a modified Swiss Chalet style house. It has a raised floor plan, where the main living area is on the second floor, with bedrooms and integrated garage on the lower level. It was located on a large plot of land near the corner of Springfield Avenue and Robert Street NE (a note on a map in the files suggests the street was named after Stacy-Judd).
Robert Stacy-Judd: Streets of All Nations
The unbuilt "Streets of All Nations" project was designed as a large-scale commercial enterprise. Stacy-Judd designed restaurants, motels, theaters, churches and temples, art galleries, and residences all grouped by country and architectural style. He blended a number of different styles, including Art Deco, Modern, and Mayan, as well as regional styles like Swiss Chalet and Indian.
Robert Stacy-Judd: Twin Lakes Park (Chatsworth, Calif.)
Twin Lakes Park was a resort development featuring two man-made lakes. Stacy-Judd designed the entrance gate in Mayan style, on the aptly named Mayan Road. He also designed the clubhouse and a few "Aztec" style cabins. Unfortunately, the lakes have been drained and filled in, and both the gate and clubhouse have been demolished when the 118 freeway was expanded.
Roland Coate: All Saints Episcopal Church (Beverly Hills, Calif.)
This church was one of Coate's early solo commissions, after leaving the firm Johnson, Kaufmann and Coate. It is also one of his few church commissions. The structure is a very good example of Spanish Colonial Revival style, which was very popular in the early 1920s.
Roland Eli Coate, Sr. papers, Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University of California, Santa Barbara.
Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University of California, Santa Barbara.
Roland Coate: Allen house (Pasadena, Calif.)
This house for Herbert Allen Jr. is located in the Oak Knoll neighborhood of Pasadena.
Roland Coate, architect W.M. Clarke, photographer
Roland Coate: Armstrong house (Arcadia, Calif.)
This Monterey Colonial style house was designed by Coate for business executive Lionel M. Armstrong.
Roland Coate: Barber house (Pasadena, Calif.)
The John E. Barber house is an early example of Coate's Monterey Revival style-- a second story balcony, center hall, with the majority of rooms opening onto outside space. Grayson C. and John Edwin Barber were a well-to-do and prominent Pasadena couple, and the property was a prime lot with views along the Arroyo Seco. Landscape architecture design was completed by Katherine Bashford.
Roland E. Coate, Sr., architect William Clarke, photographer
Roland Coate: Battson house (Lake Arrowhead, Calif.)
Oil company executive Leigh Battson was married to Lucy Doheny and living at the Greystone Mansion in Beverly Hills when they commissioned Coate to design a vacation home on Lake Arrowhead. The estate featured steeply sloping roofs which prevented snow from accumulating, and allowed for easier snow removal. Multiple buildings were constructed, including a main house, boat house with dock, entrance gate with guard house, and servants quarters.
Roland Coate, architect George D. Haight, photographer
Roland Coate: Bixby house (Pasadena, Calif.)
This house, an interpretation of a Monterey style house, was one of Coate's earliest commissions as a solo architect, after the dissolution of the Johnson, Kaufmann, and Coate partnership. Stafford W. Bixby was a descendant of early California settlers, which might have been an inspiration for the architectural style. The two-story house features a second floor balcony which stretches almost the length of the facade. The design earned Coate an AIA honor award and the Medalla de Plata y Diploma in the United States section of the Third Pan-American Congress of Architects in Buenos Aires.
Roland Coate: Bryner house (Pasadena, Calif.)
This house is a departure from Coate's Spanish and Monterey Revival style. Built for industrialist Ira L. Bryner and his wife Margaret, the house was sited on an irregular hillside lot and bore the hallmarks of a Georgian Revival, with some Colonial influences. The steep and angled site allowed for views of the Arroyo Seco and the mountains; Coate sited the house to take best advantage of the view. The extensive gardens were designed by Florence Yoch and Lucile Council.
Roland E. Coate, Sr., architect Haight, photographer
Roland Coate: Campbell house (Pasadena, Calif.)
The Joseph Campbell house in Pasadena is one of Roland Coate's earliest solo commissions. This Andalusian style home has some Spanish accents.
Roland Coate: Coate beach house (Laguna Beach, Calif.)
Roland Coate designed and built this beach house for his family in the Emerald Bay area of Laguna Beach.
Roland Coate, architect George Haight, photographer
Roland Coate: Cotton house (Montecito, Calif.)
This large Spanish Colonial style house was erected on San Leandro Lane for a Mrs. Dorothy D. Cotton.
Montecito, Calif.; Santa Barbara, Calif.
Roland Coate: Cowlishaw ranch house (Nogales, Ariz.)
The owners of a successful furniture business, Frank and Ruth Wilmot Cowlishaw commissioned Coate to design a large ranch house and stables for their 640 acre working ranch in Arizona. The house was L shaped and centered around a pool in the back of the house. It is a blend of many different styles, and quite different from Coates' other commissions. The rambling design incorporated many different levels, heights, and masses of various parts of the building to create a single structure that gives the appearance of many different buildings.
Roland Coate: Eshman House (Bel Air, Calif.)
The M.G. Eshman house in Bel Air is a very good example of a classic American Colonial Revival style house. Sited on a large flat lot, the house is just down the street from the famous Hotel Bel-Air.
Roland Coate: Fudger house (Los Angeles, Calif.)
This house was built for Eva J.K. Fudger, daughter of a citrus rancher and wife of a Toronto businessman. Fudger had been living across the street when she commissioned Coate to build this house with a view towards the adjacent Wilshire Country Club. Coate designed the house in a Monterey style, with second floor balconies, ample connection to the outdoors, and a rambling, sprawling floor plan which included a large servant's wing and separate owners' wings. Fudger only lived in the house for two years before moving out and renting it to industrialist and aviator Howard Hughes, who lived in the house until 1942. The estate's extensive grounds were designed by Florence Yoch and Lucile Council., which received an AIA award.
Roland E. Coate Sr., architect W.M. Clarke, photographer
Roland Coate: Gabriel house (San Marino, Calif.)
This Spanish Colonial Revival style house was built on a large lot in San Marino for O. Nicholas Gabriel.
Roland Coate: Goldwater house (Los Angeles, Calif.)
This large house in the Mid-Wilshire neighborhood of Los Angeles was built for Lemuel Goldwater, a garment industry pioneer and relative of Senator Barry Goldwater.
Roland Coate, architect George Haight, photographer A.E. Hanson, landscape architect
Roland Coate: Heath house (San Marino, Calif.)
The house for Edward Heath in San Marino (also listed as Pasadena), has some characteristics of a Regency style home, with an unusual double-height porch.
Roland Coate: Hickman house (Los Angeles, Calif.)
This house for Frank Hickman is located near the campus of UC Los Angeles in the "Little Holmby" area of Westwood.
Los Angeles, Calif.; Holmby Hills, Calif.
Roland Coate: Hornblow house (Beverly Hills, Calif.)
Coate designed this large house for movie producer Arthur Hornblow Jr and his second wife, actress Myrna Loy.
Roland Coate, architect Maynard Parker, photographer
Roland Coate: Johnson house (Downey, Calif.)
This large Monterey-style house was designed for A Parley Johnson and his wife Geline "Gypsy" Johnson. They were citrus growers, and the house was originally surrounded by 50 acres of orange groves. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986 as Casa de Parley Johnson; the house is currently used by the Assistance League of Downey.
Roland Coate, architect W.M. Clarke, photographer Florence Yoch and Lucile Council, landscape architects
Roland Coate: Leimert Park houses (Los Angeles, Calif.)
The area of South Los Angeles known as Leimert Park was developed in the late 1920s by Walter Leimert, and was one of the first planned communities in Southern California. The neighborhood was landscaped by the Olmstead Brothers, and in addition to Coate, also includes works by Richard Neutra and Sumner Spaulding.
Roland Coate: Liebig house (Bel Air, Calif.)
The house for Rudolph and Caroline Liebig is located on a large flat lot in the Bel Air section of Los Angeles.
Roland Coate: Lippiatt house (Bel Air, Calif.)
Coate built this house for Mrs. H.C. Lippiatt and Mrs. F.M.P. Taylor in a Colonial Revival style, with influences of Spanish, Monterey, and New Orleans styles. The house backs onto the Bel Air Country Club golf course, and is close to the campus of UCLA.
Roland Coate: Norcross house (Bel Air, Calif.)
This large house, on a prominent hill overlooking the Bel Air Country Club was commissioned by petroleum executive David C. and Irene Norcross. The house features many Monterey Revival influences, as well as some intricate ironwork on a double-height balcony which references the architectural styles in New Orleans. The landscape plan was designed by A.E. Hanson.
Roland E. Coate, Sr., architect George Haight, photographer
Roland Coate: Selznick house (Beverly Hills, Calif.)
Irene Mayer and David C. Selznick, a well-known movie producer, commissioned this house from Coate at the height of the great depression. The house was a Georgian Revival on a large lot in the center of Beverly Hills, surrounded by other movie moguls. Irene Mayer took a hands-on approach to working with Coate on her house-- she even assisted in designing the kitchens, bathrooms, and service wing. Subsequent owners of the property included Edward Doheny, Sammy Davis Jr., and Ed McMahon. The original landscape design was by Florence Yoch and Lucile Council.
Roland Coate: Stern house (Holmby Hills, Calif.)
Real estate investor Jacob Stern commissioned this house from Coate in 1928. The over 9000 square foot estate was designed in the Mediterranean Revival style, on a 2.2 acre parcel of land. The 30 room mansion was sited on the crown of a hill, overlooking some of Holmby Hills' prime real estate. The house was later owned by Alfred and Betty Bloomingdale; it was recently sold and is undergoing extensive renovation of house and grounds. The estate landscape design was by A.E. Hanson.
Holmby Hills, Calif.; Los Angeles, Calif.
Roland Coate: Warner house (Beverly Hills, Calif.)
This house for Jack Warner (one of the founding brothers in Warner Brothers Studios), was an alteration of and addition to an existing house. The Georgian style mansion with a Greek-style portico featured interior design by William Haines and landscape architecture by Florence Yoch.
Roland Coate, architect Fred Dapprich, photographer
Rudolph Schindler Lovell cabin (Wrightwood, Calif.)
Dr. Philip Lovell was a doctor who commissioned multiple projects from Schindler, including his beach house in Newport Beach. This cabin in Wrightwood was to be a simple weekend getaway cabin for the doctor and his wife Leah and their family. The cabin was assembled using prefabricated panels with a flat roof and the structure only withstood one year of snow at its high elevation before it collapsed.
R. M. Schindler papers, Architecture & Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University of California, Santa Barbara.
Architecture & Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University of California, Santa Barbara.
These photographs capture Schindler at the construction site for the Walker house and in a more composed setting later in life.
Rudolph Schindler: Barnsall house interiors (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Some of the hallmarks of Schindler's later works can be seen in these interior photographs. The built-in furniture, focus on natural light, and the use of wood on the walls and ceiling are architectural details seen throughout his career in various residences.
Rudolph Schindler, architect Frank Lloyd Wright, architect
Rudolph Schindler: Barnsdall bedroom and bathroom alterations (Los Angeles, Calif.)
In 1925, Schindler altered Aline Barnsdall's bedroom and ensuite bathroom in the Hollyhock House. He altered the layout of the bathroom and paneled the walls and ceiling in oak. Schindler also altered the bedroom for Aline's daughter. These interior photographs are from the Schindler collection.
Rudolph Schindler: Barnsdall Director's House elevations (Los Angeles, Calif.)
The blueprints for the elevations of the Director's House (House A) show the Prairie influence on Wright's design. With a long row of clearstory windows, concrete walls, and horizontal lines, the house clearly shows the Wright design. Wright brought Rudolph Schindler out to Los Angeles from his home in Chicago to manage the construction of the Hollyhock House and the rest of the buildings on Olive Hill. The Director's house is currently undergoing renovations.
Rudolph M. Schindler, architect Frank Lloyd Wright, architect
Rudolph Schindler: Barnsdall Director's House floor plans (Los Angeles, Calif.)
The original idea for the Barnsdall site was that it was to have an on-site theater, housing for actors and staff, as well as the main house. The Director's House, also referred to as House A was designed by Wright and built with Schindler as the on-site project manager, along with FLW's son, Lloyd Wright. The Director's House is located on a corner of the property and is currently undergoing renovations.
Rudolph Schindler: Barnsdall house exterior (Los Angeles, Calif.)
This photograph of the exterior of the house shows the growth of landscaping along the front and patio areas.
Rudolph Schindler: Barnsdall pool and pergola (Los Angeles, Calif.)
This Schindler drawing of a wading pool and pergola on the Olive Hill grounds dates from 1925. Schindler continued to work for Barnsdall after she fired Wright, and the pool and pergola are examples of the ongoing work on the property.
Rudolph Schindler: Barnsdall Translucent house (Palos Verdes, Calif.)
Rudolph Schindler first worked with Aline Barnsdall on the Hollyhock House, when Frank Lloyd Wright sent Schindler to California from Illinois to supervise the construction while Wright went to Japan to work on the Imperial Hotel. Schindler continued to work with Barnsdall, even after she had a falling-out with Wright. The Translucent house was designed to be set along a cliff-top overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Palos Verdes. It was never built, and has been named one of the greatest unfinished projects of the twentieth century.
Rudolph Schindler: Bennati Cabin (Lake Arrowhead, Calif.)
The distinctive A-frame shape of the Gisela Bennati cabin is possibly one of the earliest uses of the style as a residence in the United States. The steeply pitched roof is a very good choice for the Lake Arrowhead region, since the lake is at a high elevation which receives many inches of heavy, wet snow each winter. The shape helps to shed snow while providing walls of windows to look out on the view.
Rudolph Schindler: Bethlehem Baptist Church (Los Angeles, Calif.)
The Bethlehem Baptist Church on South Compton Avenue in Los Angeles is Schindler's only religious structure. It is one of very few examples of modern architecture in South Los Angeles. The African-American church congregation commissioned Schindler to design the building in 1944, most likely due to his ability to work with small budgets and be his own contractor. The church was declared a Los Angeles Historic Cultural Monument in 2009, and is still in use today by a new religious organization.
Rudolph Schindler, architect Julius Shulman, photographer
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Rudolph Schindler: Braxton beach house (Los Angeles, Calif.)
The beach house for Henry Braxton and his wife Viola Brothers Shore was to be sited along the ocean in the Venice Beach area of Los Angeles. The three story house (with sleeping porch and deck on the roof) was never built. Braxton was an art dealer and Schindler had previously worked with him on an interior for his art gallery.
R. M. Schindler papers, Architecture & Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University of California, Santa Barbara
Architecture & Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University of California, Santa Barbara
Los Angeles, Calif.; Venice Beach, Calif.
Rudolph Schindler: Bubeshko apartments (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Anastasia Bubeshko and her daughter Luby commissioned Schindler to design an apartment complex on Griffith Park Boulevard in the Silverlake neighborhood in Los Angeles. They wanted a modular design on the sloping lot, one which could contain 5 apartment units, but also be reconfigured into 7 units, if desired. The complex was designated a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument in 2006, and won a Conservancy Preservation Award in 2010.
Rudolph Schindler: Buena Shore Club (Chicago, Ill.)
This very early work of Schindler was done while he was still in the employ of the Chicago architecture firm Otternheim, Stern, and Reichert, just prior to Schindler leaving to work for Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin. Built at Buena Avenue and Lakeshore Drive, the L-shaped clubhouse was part of the Buena Park neighborhood of upscale homes and apartment buildings.
Rudolph Schindler, architect Ottenheim, Stern, and Reichert, architects
Rudolph Schindler: DeKeyser duplex (Los Angeles, Calif.)
The house for John DeKeyser (also spelled de Keysor), is a duplex with a two bedroom unit on the top floor and a one bedroom unit on the lower floor. This house is just one house away from the Frank Lloyd Wright Freeman house, on the hill above.
Rudolph Schindler, architect Woodcock, photographer
Rudolph Schindler: El Pueblo Ribera Court (La Jolla, Calif.)
This twelve unit complex of duplexes, built for San Diego dentist W.L. Lloyd, showcased how Schindler was able to incorporate many of his modern plans into a multi-unit complex. Each unit had a ground floor living area, outdoor garden space, and an upper terrace and sleeping area. The units also have a view of Windansea Beach and the Pacific Ocean. Only one of the units is still relatively intact, two others burned, and the rest have been altered in various ways (mostly to inclose the upper floor to make more living space).
Rudolph Schindler: Erlik house (Los Angeles, Calif.)
The Robert and Mariana Erlik house was built in the Hollywood Hills section of Los Angeles in the early 1950s.
Rudolph Schindler: Falk apartments (Los Angeles, Calif.)
The apartment complex for Ted Falk at the corner of Lucile and Carnation avenues in Los Angeles, is one of the more complex designs for a Schindler apartment building. The four apartments are set on an irregular-shaped lot, on a steeply sloping hill. Schindler placed the two one-bedroom apartments and the two two-bedroom apartments above and set back from the streets to give each apartment a private outdoor space and a view of the city.
Rudolph Schindler: Free Public Library (Jersey City, NJ)
At the time Schindler submitted a design for the Bergen Branch of the Free Public Library Competition in Jersey City, New Jersey, he was working for Frank Lloyd Wright in Oak Park, Illinois. Schindler did not win the competition, and was not even mentioned as a contender. He did not follow the competition instructions by designing a smaller building, siting the library on a different portion of the lot than required, and declaring the required fireplaces unnecessary.
Rudolph Schindler: Goodwin house (Los Angeles, Calif.)
This house in the Studio City area of Los Angeles, was built in 1941 for Samuel and Yolanda Goodwin. The two-bedroom plus den house is sited on a street-to-street lot, with views of the valley.
Los Angeles, Calif.; Studio City, Calif.
Rudolph Schindler: Gould and Bandini Workmen''s Colony housing development (Los Angeles, Calif.)
The housing development for Gould and Bandini was a series of small houses for single workers or small families. This project was never built.
This rendering of Harriman's Colony is a birds-eye view of a planned community, possibly in San Gabriel. The client, Job Harriman was a lawyer and ran for mayor of Los Angeles in 1911 as a socialist. After his failed mayoral bid, Harriman started a utopian socialist community called Llano del Rio, just outside of Palmdale, California. The short lived (1915-1917) community was self-sufficient, growing their own food, creating building materials, and living a communal lifestyle. Schindler had an interest in alternative lifestyles, so it is not surprising that Harriman would commission Schindler to design a colony.
Rudolph Schindler: Harris house (Los Angeles, Calif.)
The house designed for writer Rose Harris was built on top of a rocky ridge in the Laurel Canyon area of Los Angeles. The steep hillside site provided an unobstructed view down the canyon, but the footprint of the house was small, due to the restrictive building site. The house was demolished in the early 1970s.
Rudolph Schindler: Hiler house and studio (Los Angeles, Calif,)
Hilaire Hiler was a well-known artist in the United States and Europe in the 1920s and 1930s. He commissioned Schindler to build this house and studio, just off of Sunset Boulevard. The house was torn down in the 1960s.
Rudolph Schindler: How house (Los Angeles, Calif.)
The James Eads How house in the Silverlake area of Los Angeles, is sited on top of a ridge, with views of the San Fernando Valley. The house at 2400 square feet, is large for a Schindler, and is built with center-cut redwood and poured concrete. Richard Neutra designed the landscaping for the house. The How house was named a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument in 2007.
Rudolph Schindler: Irving house (Wilmette, Ill.)
The James B. Irving house was a temporary home designed by Schindler while he was employed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Schindler designed the home quickly, after Irving requested a temporary home since his had been destroyed by a tornado. The Irvings lived in this small home until 1928, when they commissioned John Van Bergen (another former associate of Wright) to design a Prairie style home. The Bergen house was on the same parcel of land as the Schindler/Wright temporary house. Both houses were extant until 2014 when the Bergen house was moved to Evanston and the Schindler/Wright house was dismantled and put into storage to make way for a new development.
Rudolph Schindler: Janson house (Los Angeles, Calif.)
This house for poet Ellen Janson, is perched on the edge of a cliff, high in the Hollywood Hills area of Los Angeles. Janson was a modernist poet, and is widely considered Schindler's last girlfriend.
Rudolph Schindler: Kallis house (Studio City, Calif.)
The Maurice Kallis house is sited on a north-facing slope in Studio City, with a wide view of the San Fernando Valley. The house originally contained a separate apartment and detached artist studio, but is now a single family home.
Rudolph Schindler, architect Robert Cleveland, photographer
Rudolph Schindler: Kaun beach house (Richmond, Calif.)
The beach house for Alexander "Sasha" Kaun and his wife Valeria was featured in many architecture magazines in the 1930s as an example of a small, inexpensive house. Kaun was a professor of Slavic languages at UC Berkeley and his wife was a famous artist; they both knew Schindler from their time in Chicago. The house was torn down in 2010.
Rudolph Schindler: Korsen bungalow court (Los Angeles, Calif.)
In the 1920s the 'bungalow court' was a common form of affordable housing in the Los Angeles region. With small units lining the sides of a city lot, perpendicular to the street, a courtyard is formed between the units. This style allowed each unit to have a bit of open space, and to fill in a lot with small individual units. Many of the bungalow courts in the city of Los Angeles were built by contractors, with no architect input, in a Spanish Revival or more traditional style. This unbuilt project for Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Korsen was designed by Schindler in a much more modern style.
Rudolph Schindler: Laurelwood apartments (Studio City, Calif.)
The Laurelwood Apartments were the last grouping of apartments Schindler designed before he died. The complex of twenty two-bedroom, one-bath apartments is set on a sloping lot, with each apartment having either a private patio or terrace and a private entrance. The International Style apartments were one of the first courtyard apartment complexes in the Los Angeles area in this modern style. The complex was designated a Los Angeles Historic Cultural Monument in 1980, after a developer threatened to tear it down.
Rudolph Schindler: Lee house alterations (Maywood, Ill.)
This house alteration for J.B. Lee was in the Chicago suburb of Maywood. The project was completed by Schindler when he worked for the architecture firm Ottenheimer Stern and Reichert.
Rudolph Schindler: Lovell beach house (Newport Beach, Calif.)
The beach house commissioned by Phillip Lovell is widely regarded as one of the best examples of modernist architecture by Schindler. With rough, exposed, concrete forms, open staircases, two story living room, and windows facing the ocean, the beach house was very modern for Newport Beach in 1926.
Rudolph Schindler: Mackey apartments (Los Angeles, Calif.)
The Mackey apartments were designed in 1939 for Pearl Mackey. Three apartments were rented out, with the fourth, a two-story penthouse, was for Mrs. Mackey herself. Each unit had a different layout, and included built-in furniture, outdoor spaces, and Schindler's characteristic modernist shapes and volumes of indoor space. The apartment building is owned by the Austrian government and run as residential apartments and event space for artists who are part of the MAK Center for Art and Architecture.
Rudolph Schindler: Martin country home (Taos, NM)
This "Country house in adobe" for Dr. Thomas P. Martin was one of Schindler's earliest designs in the United States. After spending one week touring Taos, Schindler was influenced by the adobe and pueblo structures in the town.
Rudolph Schindler: Meline Photoplay building (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Schindler designed preliminary sketches for this high-rise office tower for the Frank Meline Company. The Photoplay building featured a top floor clubhouse for the Photoplayers, which included a ballroom/dining room, men's and women's lounges, a library, multiple small card playing rooms, and a billiard room. Photoplay magazine was a movie industry magazine in the 1920s.
Rudolph Schindler: Monolith house (Racine, Wis.?)
Schindler was working for Frank Lloyd Wright when Thomas Hardy commissioned a series of 18 worker houses near Racine, Wisconsin.
Rudolph Schindler: Neighborhood Center (Chicago, Ill.)
In 1914, the Chicago Architectural Club held a competition to design a neighborhood civic complex. This was Schindler's entry, featuring a very clean lines and a rectilinear plan.
Rudolph Schindler: Oliver house (Los Angeles, Calif.)
The house for William Oliver in the Silverlake area of Los Angeles is set on a steep lot, with views to the ocean and mountains. The garage is at street level, and the house is above, at a 45 degree angle to take advantage of the views and access the yard.
Rudolph Schindler: Popenoe cabin (Coachella, Calif.)
The small, square house for Paul Popenoe and his wife contained two bedrooms, a bathroom, and the exterior walls were ringed with porches that could be covered to act as sleeping porches and an extension of the living space. A central living area with large fireplace separated the two bedrooms from each other.
Rudolph Schindler: Rose beach colony (Santa Monica, Calif.?)
The beach colony with semi-circular beach cottages was planned for Santa Monica and possibly named the "Cabania City Project" by A.E. Rose. One prototype beach cottage was built, but the rest of the colony was not constructed.
Los Angeles, Calif.; Santa Monica, Calif.?
Rudolph Schindler: Roth house (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Roxy Roth was a screenwriter and actor who commissioned Schindler to design a house in the Studio City area of Los Angeles. The house is on an irregular-shaped lot, with a curved driveway/covered garage with an entrance and exit. The house is sited along the street, to give a wide area for a yard and outdoor living space.
Rudolph Schindler: Rubinstein reception room (Hollywood, Calif.)
The reception room / salon interior design for Helena Rubinstein by Schindler was for a building on the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Highland Avenue. Helena Rubinstein, the cosmetics entrepreneur, also commissioned Shindler to design a salon in New York City.
Rudolph Schindler, architect Viroque Baker, photographer
Rudolph Schindler: Sachs Apartments (Los Angeles, Calif.)
The Manola Court apartments were designed by Schindler for his friend Herman Sachs, on a steep hillside in the Silverlake area of Los Angeles. Sachs was the muralist and painter of the interiors for LA landmarks such as City Hall, Union Station, and Bullocks Wilshire. He started purchasing land on Lucille Avenue in 1926 and had Schindler eventually design three buildings, and add to two others that were already existing, eventually finishing the 16 apartments in 1940. The apartment complex was named a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Landmark in 2016.
Rudolph Schindler: Sardi's Restaurant (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Schindler designed the interior of the restaurant for Adolph Edward Brandstatter, including the furnishings. The restaurant, on Hollywood Boulevard near Vine, was popular with the Hollywood movie stars. It was originally open 24 hours per day and contained separate bar and restaurant areas. A kitchen fire in 1936 destroyed the building.
Rudolph Schindler, architect and designer
Rudolph Schindler: Shep house (Los Angeles, Calif.)
The house for Milton and Ruth Shep was designed to sit on a steep slope in the Silverlake area of Los Angeles. Ruth Shep also commissioned Schindler to design furniture for the house.
Rudolph Schindler: Tischler house (Los Angeles, Calif.)
The Adolphe Tischler house, on a sloping hillside in the Westwood area of Los Angeles, has a street facade that is reminiscent of the prow of a ship. The street level contained a carport and artist's workshop, while the main entrance and living space was two floors above, facing the back of the lot. The house was declared a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument in 1991.
Rudolph Schindler, architect Lotte Nossaman, photographer Marvin Rand, photographer
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Rudolph Schindler: Toole house (Palm Desert, Calif.)
This desert house for Maryon (also listed as Marian) Toole, is located in Palm Desert, which at the time was an unincorporated area known as Palm Village. It features stone walls with wood framing, large glass walls and clerestory windows to let in light, and a large overhanging roof to keep the hot desert sun from heating up the inside.
Rudolph Schindler, architect Shirley Burden, photographer
Palm Desert, Calif.; Palm Village, Calif.
Rudolph Schindler: Van Dekker house (Canoga Park, Calif.)
This large (3700 square feet) house was built in Canoga Park for actor Albert Van Dekker and his family. The three-level house sits under an unusual copper roof. The Van Dekker house was declared a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument in 2009.
Rudolph Schindler: Van Patten house (Los Angeles, Calif.)
This hillside house in the Silverlake area of Los Angeles was built for Elizabeth Van Patten and two other women, as three separate apartments with communal areas. Schindler also designed the furniture for the house.
Rudolph Schindler: Walker house (Los Angeles, Calif.)
The house Schindler designed for Ralph G. Walker overlooks the Silverlake reservoir on a steeply sloping site. The three bedroom, two bath house is a series of interlocking planes and cubes, with clerestory windows and expansive views. Schindler designed the built-in furniture, as well as other furniture pieces for the home.
Rudolph Schindler: Wolfe house (Avalon, Santa Catalina Island, Calif.)
The Charles H. and Ethel Wolfe house was a single-family house with views of Avalon Bay, ocean, and natural landscapes. The mezzanine level was the street level and included the garage, small bedroom with full bath, kitchen, terrace, and living room with fireplace. The second floor was one below the mezzanine, and contained an ample guest room, with its own entry, kitchen, dressing room, multi-purpose living area and terrace. The house was torn down in 2002, and a house with a similar street facade was erected in its place.
This site plan shows the pedestrian circulation patterns within this section of San Joaquin. The mixed height of the buildings, break up the massing of the structures which hold faculty apartments, lounges, and study spaces. The plan emphasizes communal spaces by placing them close to the public walkways. The buildings were sited so as not to impede upon the Storke Ranch properties immediately to the north. San Joaquin follows this model by also including the Portola Dining Commons, a market, outdoor volleyball and basketball courts, as well as a range of social and academic services for the 1000 students who live here and for the 1300 students in the adjacent Santa Catalina Residence Hall. By adding more apartment-style living units and amenities, the University hopes to keep students living in campus housing for all four of their undergraduate years. Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects (LOHA) designed two of the housing clusters in the northern section of the site. Two more of the clusters were designed by Kevin Daly Architects (KDA), and Kieran Timberlake was responsible for the Portola Dining Commons. Two 6-story towers and the overall site master plan are by Skidmore Owings and Merrill (SOM).
University of California, Santa Barbara Campus Building records, Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University of California, Santa Barbara.
Santa Barbara College of the University of California-- Mesa Campus Master Plan
This master plan of the Leadbetter Mesa campus, assumed to be drawn by Soule & Murphy, shows a large number of buildings built on the mesa and surrounding areas. The Arts buildings were clustered towards the Cliff Drive side of campus, while the Science buildings were closer to the ocean. Dormitories and a student union were in the area of the SBCC west campus, with a large amphitheater and tennis courts along Loma Alta Drive. The football stadium had been built in 1940, and other athletic buildings were added to the area below the mesa, along with 'beach sports' on west beach, and 'yachting' in the harbor.
Robert Ingle Hoyt papers, Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University of California, Santa Barbara.
Santa Barbara State College -- Industrial Education Unit
This image is a photograph of a rendering of the Industrial Education Unit for the Leadbetter Mesa campus, designed by Alfred Eichler. It was the first building built on the site for the Santa Barbara State College expansion, and was used from the early 1940s until the campus moved to the Goleta Mesa in 1954. It is now part of the Santa Barbara City College, and houses the administration building, the MacDougall Administration Center.
Alfred Eichler papers, Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University of California, Santa Barbara.
Santa Barbara State Teachers College -- Administration Building
A photograph of a drawing by Alfred Eichler of the Administration Building for the Santa Barbara State Teachers College, formerly the State Normal School. The rendering shows the proposed administration building which housed offices, classrooms, a library, and a theater. Currently, the building is home to the Riviera Theater, and is part of the Santa Barbara International Film Festival.
Santa Barbara State Teachers College -- Ebbets Hall archway to loggia
A photograph of an arched entrance to the loggia at the western end of Ebbets hall. The photograph was taken soon after construction; un-graded dirt and construction debris can be seen at the base of the stairs.
Santa Barbara State Teachers College -- Ebbets Hall northeast entrance
A photograph of the entrance to Ebbets Hall on the northeast corner, facing Alvarado Place. The building was named after Miss Charlotte Ebbets, who was the department head of the Home Economics Department at the college. Ebbets Hall contained classrooms, laboratories, a 'practice house' for home economics classes, a kitchen, and three dining rooms.
Santa Barbara State Teachers College -- Ebbets Hall southeast corner
A photograph of the southeast side of the building.
SBCAA: "Mexican House" (Carpinteria, Calif.)
A small house surrounded by a flower garden.
Santa Barbara Community Arts Association records, Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University of California, Santa Barbara.
SBCAA: adobe house (Santa Barbara, Calif.)
The caption on the back of the photograph: "1926 Demonstration House #1 Better Homes in America Campaign in which the local Better Homes Committee won the National 1st Prize. Adobe brick on reinforced concrete foundation withstood earthquake."
SBCAA: Carpinteria houses (Carpinteria, Calif.)
SBCAA: Casa Loma house (Santa Barbara, Calif.)
This is an exterior view of a Demonstration House for the Better Homes Committee, it is a house on Hermosa Road in Santa Barbara.
SBCAA: Church house (Santa Barbara, Calif.)
This house received First Prize in the 4 Room Class for small homes. This Demonstration Home cost $2500 to build on East Cota Street in Santa Barbara.
SBCAA: Class 3 house (Santa Barbara, Calif.)
This Demonstration House was listed as Class 3 by the Better Homes Committee, and was located on Quinientos Street in Santa Barbara.
SBCAA: Cook house (Santa Barbara, Calif.)
Caption on back of photograph: "6 - room house by A. B. Cook"
SBCAA: Demonstration House #1 (Santa Barbara, Calif.)
Caption on back of photograph: "Tied with Atlanta, George for First Prize Demonstration House #1 - East Yanonali St. Better Homes in America Campaign 1925"