Reading Response # 11- Modernist Architecture

Lovell Health House & Lovell Beach House

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"Tecknik = type based on human laws.
Art = variation seen through a human mind."

—Rudolph M. Schindler. from his notebook, as cited in Esther McCoy. Five California Architects. p167.

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- Schindler Started off his career working for Frank Lloyd Wright before branching out on his own.
- His designs set the tone for architecture that America had never seen before.
- The Lovell Beach House was the first completely steel framed house in the united states.

- All the prefabricated elements were bonded together in less than 40 hours.

- His houses were not a house in any traditional sense and from below appeared to look like the underneath of a bridge.

- The surface of the house itself was defined by glass and white steel panels.



Lovell Heath House exterior view with a style reminicent of Frank Lloyd Wrights design in Falling Water even down to being located in the landscape and incorporated into mountianside itself. 



Heath House Interior with vairng cealing heights and windows that bring the outside in.

Lovell Beach House
"The house was not a box, However, but a complex structure with extended balconies and sleeping porches on the upper floor suspended from a  powerful roof beams above." (Ching, 722)

Schindler's design style helped to create a modern style that we are still looking to for inspiration today. this style is still cutting edge and stands out from the mass amounts of houses striving for modern.

[sources]

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lovell_Beach_House_03.jpg

http://www.neutra.org/tours.html
http://www.eichlernetwork.com/fnc_steel.html
http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/P._Lovell_House.html