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This comprehensive study of Rudolf Schindler, bor in Vienna in 1887, is the most up-to-date work on this influential Austrian architect.
It has been compiled by August Samitz in close collaboration with the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, where Schindler attended the famous Wagnerschule from 1912-1914 as one of Otto Wagner's most outstanding students.
In 1914, soon after he arrived in America and began working as a draftsman in Chicago, Schindler found himself befriended by the most notable architects of the day. among them Frank Lloyd Wright.
Schindler worked for a period of years in Wright's office before joining Richard Neutra and settling permanently in Los Angeles. Schindler's California houses-both the glamorous and the modest remain a subject worthy of the detailed documentation they receive in this first monograph.
Samnitz provides a comprehensive account of Schindler's life and work and catalogues his buildings and projects with plans, drawings, and photographs. A particularly valuable part of the book includes extracts from Schindler's wide-ranging correspondence-some previously unpublished - with Richard Neutra. Joseph Urban. Louis Sullivan. Frank Lloyd Wright, and Philip Johnson. Another chapter presents Schin-der's selected writings and lectures on architecture.
August Samnitz is the director of the Otto Wagner Institute of Vienna and has written extensively on modem American architecture.
