!!!Schindler, Rudolf Michael

b. Vienna, Sept. 10, 1887, 
d. Los Angeles, USA, Aug. 22, 1953, architect. Studied at Vienna 
University of Technology from 1906 to 1911 and at the Academy of Fine 
Arts with O.  Wagner from 1911 to 1914. In 1913 also became a disciple 
of A.  Loos, in whose group he first met R.  Neutra, with whom he 
again later had contact in the USA. Lived in the United States from 
1914 onwards, working in F. Lloyd Wright's atelier, was responsible 
for planning the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo in 1917 and from 1923 
executed orders for his own clientele, especially in Los Angeles. His 
oeuvre (esp. residential homes and terrace developments), which was 
characterised by the liberal use of concrete, timber and glass as 
building materials, constituted a significant contribution to the 
development of 20th century architecture.

!Literature
A. Sarnitz, Rudolf Michael Schindler, Architekt, 
1887-1953, 1986 (with catalogue of works) ; P. Goessel (ed.), 
R. M. S., 1999; E. A. T. Smith (ed.), R. M. S. 
Bauten und Projekte, 2001.



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