Rudolf Michael Schindler (1887–1953) was an Austrian-American architect who worked in Los Angeles during the mid-20th century. He is often associated with the fringes of the modern movement in architecture, but although he worked and trained with some of its foremost practitioners, his inventive use of complex three dimensional forms, warm materials, striking colours, and tight budgets have placed him as one of the true mavericks of 20th century architecture. His work mostly escaped widespread publication during his lifetime, but has developed a critical resurgence since the 1980s.

Early history

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Rudolf Michael Schindler was born on September 10 1887, to a middle class family in Vienna, Austria. His father was a wood/metal craftsman and importer; his mother was a dressmaker. He attended the Imperial and Royal High School from 1899 to 1906, and enrolled in the Wagnersschule of Vienna Polytechnic University, graduating in 1911 with a degree in architecture. Schindler was most impressed by professor Carl König, despite the presence of many other famous notables like Otto Wagner, and particularly Adolf Loos. Most notably, in 1911, he was introduced to the work of Frank Lloyd Wright through the influential Wasmuth Portfolio.

Schindler also met lifelong friend and rival Richard Neutra at the university in 1912, before completing his thesis project in 1913. (Their careers would parallel each other: both would come to Los Angeles through Chicago, be recognized as important early modernists creating new styles suited to the Californian climate, and sometimes both would work for the same clients).

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