David Gebhard
Schindler.
The Viking Press, 1972. Pioneers of Modern Architecture. First US edition. Preface by Henry-Russell Hitchcock. 216 pages.
Volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 8.75", is bound in dark blue cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Three faint foxing spots appear on title page. Book is otherwise in fine condition. Profusely illustrated with b&w photographic illustrations, drawings and plans. Dust jacekt, with price of $7.95 on front flap, shows very light shelfwear. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover.
"The Los Angeles architect Rudolph Schindler is regarded today as one of the central figures of the Modern movement. Trained in Vienna under Otto Wagner and Adolf Loos, Schindler then migrated to Los Angeles under the apprenticeship of Frank Lloyd Wright. Surrounded by a clientele of progressive thinkers in the emerging intellectual culture of Hollywood, Schindler created a radical and intensely personal architectural conception, resulting in some of the seminal works of the twentieth century. Gebhard's Schindler, first issued in 1971, is the only full-length account of Schindler's prolific yet unfulfilled career. The new edition includes 16 full-color illustrations of Schindler's renderings which were not included in the original. Charles Moore said, "David Gebhard's book about Rudolph Schindler was, for me, the most moving story of an architect that I have read since I was astonished at an early age by Frank Lloyd Wright's autobiography."