835 Kings Road, Hollywood

Ground level, with two rooftop sleeping decks to encourage and accommodate co-existent nature.

Architect, Rudolf Schindler—Austrian at birth, American emigre—created for 4 people including Schindler’s wife at the time, each with their own studio.

The context then, Hollywood, 1922: smallish-one story single-family homes. Context now, the Schindler house now by 2-and 3 story apartment buildings so as to distinguish between the Schindler house both then and now.

(Editorial note) Zero Artificial Intelligence prior to Surveillance Capitalism, within a mile or so from the La Brea Tarpits; no freeways yet.

Saved from destruction in 1980 the Schindler House is now headquarters of MAK—the Austrian Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna. Tours of the house may be arranged.

Brooks RoddanComment