R.M. Schindler's "Tucker House" For Sale

[jay]

https://www.redfin.com/CA/Los-Angeles/8 ... me/7116253

[SDR]

Thanks ! I don't know of anyone who carved and lighted residential space quite as Schindler did.

Sheine (1998 ?) lists the house as a 1949-50 design. Gebhard says 1950, and includes Schindler's view drawing (Pl 156). No plans are found in the several Schindler books on my shelves. Gebhard includes this among several late houses he says hark back to the architect's "earlier de Stijl aesthetic" and that these designs "are purposely thinner and more suggestive of the non-permanent than anything he had produced before the war."

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[Tim]

I visited two dozen of his houses, exterior views only. I always left impressed.

Photos and images have not done his work complete justice - as best I can tell.

[SDR]

Architectural space is by definition not reproducible in a 2-D medium. (Question: is video a two-dimensional medium ?) With respect, seeing the exteriors only of any building, and especially one by an architect like Schindler, is akin to taking in a meal by looking at a photo of it. Unlike Wright, Schindler in the end declared that he didn't care what materials enclosed his "Space Architecture"---implying that is was the form of the space so enclosed that interested him. The seemingly careless if not indifferent carpentry that on occasion enclosed his spaces speaks volumes, in that regard ?

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[SDR]

(Perhaps it would be more fair to describe the fabric of Schindler's iconoclastic carpentry as another of his inventions, a sort of minimalism---as if paring back were both an economic and an aesthetic set of decisions. Section detail drawings show him reinventing the wheel, like many another radical architect, while using off-the-shelf lumber.)

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