Title: Vienna to Los Angeles
Description: Architectural historian and critic Esther McCoy sheds clarifying new light
on the complex and controversial personal and professional relationship
between R. M. Schindler and Richard Neutra from its beginnings in Vienna
to Chicago, Taliesin and finally Kings Road in Los Angeles. Mrs. McCoy
draws upon her own long association with Schindler and Neutra,
interviews with their clients and colleagues. and letters and documents many
never before published. The book includes all correspondence
between Schindler and Neutra contained in the University of California at
Santa Barbara Art Department's R. M. Schindler Architectural Collection
and letters of Louis Sullivan to Schindler. Foreword by Harwell Hamilton
Harris, FAIA.
Subjects: Architects, Architecture, Correspondence, History, Description and travel, Modern Architecture
Places: United States
People: Louis H. Sullivan (1856-1924), R. M. Schindler (1887-1953), Richard Joseph Neutra (1892-1970)
Time periods: 20th century