Review by Choice Review
A first-rate introduction to the work of the Austrian-born architect Richard Schindler (1887-1953), now recognized as a major American architect of the 1920s and '30s. He came to the US in 1914, and three years later was working for Frank Lloyd Wright; in 1920 he moved to Los Angeles. It was on the West Coast that Schindler created his best-known works, the Schindler-Chase House in Los Angeles (1921-22) and the beach house for Philip Lovel (1925-26) at Newport Beach. The editor of this important work, director of the Otto Wagner Institute in Vienna, includes a much needed catalog of Schindler's buildings and projects, compiled in collaboration with the Schindler Archives at the University of California, Santa Barbara. There are selections from Schindler's correspondence, his writings about architecture, and a chronological bibliography of Schindler's published and unpublished writings as well as a select bibliography. This book will be an important addition to all undergraduate and graduate libraries. -E. Van Schaack, Colgate University
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Review by Choice Review