Southern Comforts.(Rudolph Schindler)(Critical Essay)

"WHEN DESIGNING A BUILDING ON A hillside, it should complete the line of the hill or be placed below the crest." The words were Frank Lloyd Wright's, and R.M. Schindler carried this wisdom with him throughout his life. The houses and apartments he designed in the Hollywood hills were always carefully oriented for light and view and were set into, not against, the natural topography of their sites.

I always thought this sense of "correctness" concerned formal relation ships, until I moved into one of Schindler's designs and realized that the Vienna-born architect ...

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