R.M. SCHINDLER BY JAMES STEELE

Köln. Benedikt Taschen Verlag. 1999. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. Jacket Condition: Fine. 180pp. (ill. in colour & b/w).

Text by James Steele.
Edited and designed by Peter Gössel.
New photography by Joachim Schumaker.

Front cover: House for Rudolf M. Schindler and Clyde Chase, 1921-22.
Back cover: House for W.E. Oliver, 1933-34.

Schindler's legacy in modernist architecture has established itself with the hindsight and context of time, so his contributions (notably to a distinctly Californian modernist style) here are surveyed as part of a distinguished canon of which his work has played an unrepeatable part.