lovell beach house
newport beach
USA.r.schindler
4985380
kim eun young
Lovell beach house
Rudolf michael schindler 1887-9-10 vienna, Austria
1953-8-22 Los Angeles, California
Die 66 ages
Austrian-American architect
Los Angeles mid-20th century
Significant buildings
King‘s load house=schindler house
&lovell beach house
Landmarks of early modern architecture in America
Balboa Peninsula in Newport Beach, California
Construction system : site-cast concrete frames&wood
House
modern
Five-standing reinforced concrete frames
Form of square figure eights
Purpose
Using the frames raise house above public beach
& skeletal system solid and flexible enough withstand earthquakes
Detail drawing1
Centerpiece
Two-story living room
Floor-to-ceiling steel framed glass curtain-wall
Pacific
Detail drawing2
Residence ocean front, not far wedge Newport Harbor
Tightly packed neighborhood of building
Living quarters above the ground level
Open space reveals RC frames
2 stairway pass/openings frames leading/kitchen, main entry
Garage-N-ground floor
Garden-S-between house-beach
Interior two-story living/dining room full height
Curtain wall windows –E-S-facing the ocean
Kitchen and breakfast area –N-1F
With terrace on the ocean side over the garden
lamp&built-inf urniture original design
Bedrooms -2F connected by corridor overlooking the main living room
Each-bedrooms originally access to an open sleeping porch
But enclosed by schindler in 1928
Living quarters –N-house
Max circulation of fresh air
Each bedroom furnished with windows
For cross ventilation to eliminate the need for air conditioning
Listed as a Registered Historic Place in Califormia
On 1974-2-5
Early buildings characterised by concrete construction
Symbol of schindler’s architecture
Abandoned concrete plaster-skin design 1930-40
But interest in form space never changed
His own platform frame system=schindler frame 1945
Later work uses extensively as a basis for experimentation
Largely unnoticed wider architectural world
Radical modernism
Different for people to recognise
Los Angeles only minor speck
-architectural map
Reference
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