The Architecture of R.M. Schindler - drawings, models, furniture designs exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art - Brief Article

ArtForum, Jan, 2001 by Mayer Rus

MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART

During his life, R.M. Schindler (1887--1953) garnered precious little praise from hard-line International Style contemporaries or the press, but in the past three decades his aesthetic--a fusion of the reductivism of Adolf Loos and the planarity of Frank Lloyd Wright--has been celebrated as the exemplar of High Left Coast Modernism. The largest Schindler show ever will include 110 drawings, fifteen models, and a selection of furniture designs, charting the architect's career from his early years in Vienna through his apprenticeship with Wright and on to the California houses of the '20s, '30s, and '40s. Feb. 25-June 3; National Building Museum, Washington, DC, June 29-Oct. 7; MAK Vienna, Nov. 13, 2001-Feb. 5, 2002.