Schindler House Book

Lauded in recent years as a 20th-century masterpiece, Schindler House in West Hollywood was designed and built by Viennese emigré Rudolph M. Schindler in 1921-22. Intended as a communal dwelling for the architect and his wife and another couple, and featuring open living spaces and rooftop "sleeping baskets" suited to the mild Southern California climate, this remarkable home is considered the first modern house to be built in the world.

This, the first book on the Schindler House, features new photography—specially commissioned color images by Grant Mudford, one of the leading architectural photographers working today—as well as many archival shots. Author Kathryn Smith incorporates new research on Schindler as she analyzes every aspect of the house's design and construction and shows why it was such a radical departure from residential architecture that came before—and why it is one of the icons of the modern era.

Author Biography: Kathryn Smith, a noted architectural historian, has written and lectured extensively on Frank Lloyd Wright, Rudolph Schindler, Richard Neutra, and Lloyd Wright. A founding board member of Friends of the Schindler House, she chaired the Schindler Centennial in 1987. Smith

is author also of Abrams' Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin and Taliesin West.

Grant Mudford is a well-known architectural photographer. His pictures have appeared in numerous books and magazines, and many of his fine art photographs are in the permanent collections of major museums throughout the world.