"The Architecture of R. M. Schindler"
2001-02-25 until 2001-06-03
Museum of Contemporary Art, LA and the Geffen Contemporary
Los Angeles, CA, USA

This exhibition will be the first major survey of the architecture of Vienna-born modernist R. M. Schindler, who designed and built some of the century's most innovative buildings, including the Schindler-Chace House and the Lovell Beach House in California. The Architecture of R. M. Schindler will be the most extensive and comprehensive presentation of Schindler's work to date, spanning his early years in Vienna, his period in the office of Frank Lloyd Wright, and his independent works from the late 1910s through the 1950s.

The exhibition will include approximately 110 original drawings by Schindler, approximately 15 models of the most significant architectural works, a selection of furniture designs, new and archival photographs, and a full-scale re-creation of a prototypical, Schindler-designed beach house for his projected A.E. Rose Beach Colony (1937). The exhibition is organized by Elizabeth A. T. Smith, chief curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago and a former MOCA curator, and Michael Darling, assistant curator for The Architecture of R. M. Schindler at MOCA. It is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue with texts by Darling, Kurt Helfrich, Smith, Robert Sweeney, and Richard Guy Wilson.

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