California Split.(Brief Article)

AFTER SEARCHING UP AND DOWN Micheltorena Street, one finally comes across the Oliver House. Jammed into a typical LA hodgepodge of misplaced historical styles and partially hidden behind a continuous suburban topiary that weaves the adjacent houses together in a loose line, there is Schindler. Most of his work lives this way, packed in among all the other workaday worlds. You happen upon it, and it seems all the more extraordinary because of that.

Up from the street, through the house, and out to the back--the entire procession is less than 150 feet. When you arrive at the rear of ...

Read the rest of this article with a Free Trial at HighBeam Research.