Rudolph M. Schindler: Architect, Builder, Theorist, Utopian w Reception $15-$25 February 20, 2007

$25
$20 Members
$15 Students



Kimberli Meyer

Rudolph M. Schindler left Vienna for the United States in 1914, working first in Chicago for Frank Lloyd Wright, then settling in Los Angeles. Schindler rejected not only traditional styles of architecture but also the dominant form of modernism of his day, the International Style. He believed in the continuity of architecture and life, in the relation between site and building, and in the blending of the indoors and outdoors.

In the lecture Meyer will:

• Examine Schindler’s own house and studio on Kings Road as the purest expression of his ideals and the most radical of his experiments;
• Discuss Schindler’s concept of “space architecture”;
• Explore his most important houses, all sculptural, efficient, sensual and attuned to the climate and the body.

Kimberli Meyer is an architect and the Director of the M A K Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles at the Schindler House. She is co-curator of the exhibition “The Gen(h)ome Project” (October 28, 2006-February 25, 2007) at the Schindler House in West Hollywood.

This is part of The Sidney D. Gamble Lecture Series 2006-2007: The Continual Arts and Crafts Connection Lecture Schedule January 25, 2007 William Lees Judson: Craftsman at Heart, Painter by Trade February 20, 2007 Rudolph M. Schindler: Architect, Builder, Theorist, Utopian March 23, 2007 California in a Container: Cliff May and the Modern Ranch House April 28, 2007 Gardens of Intrigue: Greenscapes of Magic and Mystery

Official Website: http://gamblehouse.org/events/index.html#Meyer