835 N. Kings Rd., West Hollywood
Rudolph Schindler, was sent from Chicago to Los Angeles by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1920 to oversee the construction of the Barnsdall house. The following year he established an independent practice with the construction of his own home. The Kings Road house is actually a double house, with guest quarters and a common kitchen, originally built for the Schindlers and his engineering colleague, Clyde Chace. In his own house Schindler experimented with tilt-slab walls, the space between each slab filled with glass.
The Schindlers were joined in the house by Richard Neutra and his family in 1925 following the departure of the Chaces for Florida. During the mid 1920s the lifestyle of the Schindler and Neutra families consisted of diet and exercise, psychoanalysis, education, and the arts of music, dance, painting and photography. They slept in the open air, ate simple meals of fruits and vegetables by the fireplaces, and wore loose-fitting garments of natural fibers closed with ties rather than buttons. By the end of the 1920s, Pauline Schindler had left with her son, only to return in the mid 1930s to live, separate from her former husband, in the Chace studios.
The house has been owned since 1980 by the Friends of the Schindler House (FOSH), a nonprofit organization established in 1976 by his ex-wife Pauline who was concerned that the house be preserved for future generations. Restoration has been ongoing since then with funding from the City of West Hollywood, the State of California, the Republic of Austria, and private donations. Since 1994 the house has served as base for the MAK Center for Art and Architecture which offers programs that challenge conventional notions of between architectural space and the creative arts. The MAK Center is open Wednesday through Sunday and tours are available to the public by Admission.
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