Rooms to Roam.(architects Rudolph Schindler and Friedrick Kiesler)(Brief Article)(Critical Essay)

THE TALENT OF AUSTRIAN ARCHITECTS IS baroque. They celebrate space, unlike the Calvinists from Switzerland and Holland who like to rationalize it.

Form is space and space is fluid. It's only in this sense that the Austrian-born architect R.M. Schindler is Austrian, for he built not in Vienna but in Los Angeles.

Los Angeles: The eternal comparison, Schindler versus Neutra, should be replaced by another parallel, Schindler and Kiesler. Friedrick Kiesler, too, was unable to build in Vienna. And his mythical ideas of infinite space, the spatial city, and the spatial theater ...