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Lovell beach house
Rudolf michael schindler vienna, Austria
Los Angeles, California Die 66 ages
Austrian-American architect Los Angeles mid-20th century
Significant buildings King‘s load house=schindler house &lovell beach house
Landmarks of early modern architecture in America
Balboa Peninsula in Newport Beach, California
Construction system : site-cast concrete frames&wood House modern
Five-standing reinforced concrete frames Form of square figure eights
Purpose Using the frames raise house above public beach & skeletal system solid and flexible enough withstand earthquakes
Detail drawing1 Centerpiece Two-story living room Floor-to-ceiling steel framed glass curtain-wall Pacific
Detail drawing2 Residence ocean front, not far wedge Newport Harbor Tightly packed neighborhood of building Living quarters above the ground level
Open space reveals RC frames 2 stairway pass/openings frames leading/kitchen, main entry Garage-N-ground floor Garden-S-between house-beach
Interior two-story living/dining room full height Curtain wall windows –E-S-facing the ocean Kitchen and breakfast area –N-1F With terrace on the ocean side over the garden
lamp&built-inf urniture original design Bedrooms -2F connected by corridor overlooking the main living room Each-bedrooms originally access to an open sleeping porch But enclosed by schindler in 1928
Living quarters –N-house Max circulation of fresh air Each bedroom furnished with windows For cross ventilation to eliminate the need for air conditioning
Listed as a Registered Historic Place in Califormia On
Early buildings characterised by concrete construction Symbol of schindler’s architecture
Abandoned concrete plaster-skin design But interest in form space never changed His own platform frame system=schindler frame 1945 Later work uses extensively as a basis for experimentation
Largely unnoticed wider architectural world Radical modernism Different for people to recognise Los Angeles only minor speck -architectural map
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