Rudolph Michael Schindler

“As if there had never been houses before.”

- Reyner Banham
English architecture critic

**Rudolph Schindler**
*Photo: MAK Center*

Rudolph Michael Schindler was born into a Jewish Viennese family in 1887. A contemporary and life-long friend of Richard Neutra, he also moved to Los Angeles via Chicago, where he worked with Frank Lloyd Wright. A radical modernist, his work was only later admired for its inventiveness and character.

Today, three of his works, the Fitzpatrick-Leland House, the Mackey Apartments and the Schindler House (Residence) in Los Angeles belong to the Austrian Museum of Applied Arts/ Contemporary Art (MAK). They are used for exhibitions and housing of artists in residence.

**The Fitzpatrick Leland House (1936)**
Photo: *MAK Center*

**The Schindler-Chase House (1922), West Hollywood, CA.**
Photo: *Allan Fergusen/ Wikimedia* *CC BY 2.0*

Video: R. M. Schindler: The Lovell Beach House, via The Canadian Centre for Architecture/ Via YouTube