833 N Kings Rd
West Hollywood, CA 90069, USA

R. M. Schindler House - National Register of Historic Places

Statement of Significance:

One of the ten buildings most visited by architects, historians and art students because of the significant contribution, it has made to 20th century modern architecture.

Schindler’s first house, designed after he left the office of Frank Ll9yd Wright, shows the influence of Wright in the creative use of space, but the lift-slab panel walls of concrete evidence a strong personal attitude toward structure.

The innovative plan is based on a double L shape which produces two private outdoor living rooms and several garden courts. Rooms on a slab floor level with the garden, and opening out to it by sliding canvas doors, became prototypical of the California house.

When Schindler’s friend Richard Neutra came to Los Angeles in 1924 he and his family lived with the Schindler’s in the Kings Road house, and Neutra shared Schindler’s drafting room. Together they formed the Office for Industry and Commerce, and were joined by the city planner Carol Aronovici to produce unexecuted plans for a civic center for Richmond, Cal, Neutra wrote his book "Wie Baut Amerika," (Hoffman, Stuttgart, 1927) in the Schindler house.