The Schindler-Chace house, located on North Kings Road in West Hollywood, was designed by Rudolph M. Schindler as a live-work space for the architect and his wife along with another couple, Clyde and Marian Chace. Schindler came to Los Angeles in 1920 to supervise the design details and construction of the Hollyhock House, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, for Aline Barnsdall. There, he established an architectural practice and settled in the King Street home in 1922.
Kathryn Smith's monograph, "Schindler House" is an excellent resource for a more in-depth look at the cooperative live/work space.
Architect Rudolph M. Schindler (1887-1953)
Rudolph Schindler was a native Austrian and graduated with an architectural degree from the Imperial Technical University in Vienna in 1911. Schindler joined the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in 1910, which was under the direction of Otto Wagner. Wagner was renowned for his part in the Vienna Succession artist group, which rejected the confines of traditional art and architecture. At the Academy, Schindler met Richard Neutra and the two architects would become lifelong colleagues and rivals.
