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Writings by R. M. Schindler


(source: August Sarnitz "RM Schindler" and Architectural Drawing Collection (ADC), University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara)

1912

"Article '1'" (unpublished manuscript, contains first part of 'A Program', in English), Vienna 1912 (ADC)
"Modern Architecture: A program" (unpublished manuscript), Vienna 1912

1914

"Notes on Architecture" (unpublished manuscript), Chicago 1914-1919
"Writings on Architecture" (unpublished handwritten notebook), Chicago/Hollywood, 1914-40, (ADC)

1916

"Church School of Art, Lecture" (unpublished lecture manuscript), Chicago 1916 (ADC)

1921

"About Architecture" (unpublished manuscript for lecture), Hollywood 1921

1922

"Who will save Hollywood?", in Holly Leaves (Hollywood), 3. November 1922, p. 32

1926

"Ventilation" ("Care of the Body"), in: Los Angeles Times, Sunday magazine section, 14. March 1926, pp. 25-26
"Plumbing and Health" ("Care of the Body"), in: Los Angeles Times, Sunday magazine section, 21. March 1926, pp. 25-26
"About Heating" ("Care of the Body"), in: Los Angeles Times, Sunday magazine section, 4. April 1926, pp. 24-25
"About Lighting" ("Care of the Body"), in: Los Angeles Times, Sunday magazine section, 11. April 1926, pp 30-31
"About Furniture" ("Care of the Body"), in: Los Angeles Times, Sunday magazine section, 18. April 1926, pp. 26-27
"Shelter or Playground" ("Care of the Body"), in: Los Angeles Times, Sunday magazine section, 2. May 1926, pp. 26-27

1928

"Spacial (sic) Architecture" (unpublished paper on the medium of space), Hollywood Oct. 16, 1928, (ADC)

1930

"Lecturing on Contemporary Creative Architecture" (unpublished introduction to lecture series), Hollywood 1930 (ADC)
"Civic Center Design for Richmond, California", in: City Planning Commission for Richmond, 15. November 1930

1932

"A Cooperation Dwelling", in: T-Square (Philadelphia), Band 2, February 1932, pp. 20-21
"Points of View-Contra", in: Southwest Review (Austin and Dallas, Texas), Band 17, spring 1932, pp. 353-354

1934

"Space Architecture", in: Dune Forum (Oceano, California), February 1934, pp. 44-46
"Space Architecture" (unpublished manuscript), September 1934 (ADC)
"The Subsistance Farm" (letter to the Committee for Subsistence Farms presenting the 'Schindler Shelter'), Hollywood Jan. 11. 1934, (ADC)

1935

"Space Architecture", in: California Arts and Architecture, (San Francisco), Volume 47, January 1935, pp. 18-19
"Schindler-Shelters", in: American Architect and Architecture, Volume 146, May 1935, pp. 70-71
"Furniture and the Modern House: A Theory of Interior Design", in: Architect and Engineer (San Francisco), Volume 123, December 1935, pp. 20-25; and Volume 124, March 1936, pp. 24-28 (Part II)

1937

"The Printed Word" (unpublished article in reference to the work of Gjura Stojana 1885-1974), Hollywood 1937, (ADC)

1943

"Prefabrication vocabulary: the panel-post construction", in: California Arts and Architecture (San Francisco), Volume 60, June 1943, pp. 25-27
"Museum of Modern Art" (letter to Elisabeth Mock, where Schindler describes how he left stylistic sculptural architecture in order to develop space as a medium of art), Hollywood August 10. 1943, (ADC)

1944

"Notes . . . Modern Architecture" (unpublished manuscript), Los Angeles 1944
"Architect - postwar - post everybody", in: Pencil Points (New York), Volume 25, October 1944, pp 14-18. and November 1944, pp. 12-14
"Discussion", in: Pencil Points (New York), Volume 25, November 1944, p. 16; and December 1944, pp. 8
"Reference Frames in Space", (unpublished article, practically identical to later published article), Hollywood 1944, (ADC)

1945

"The Schindler Frame", (unpublished article, practically identical to later published article), Hollywood 1945, (ADC)
"BARSASH", (unpublished article on a concept for a new type of window) Hollywood 1945", (ADC)

1946

"Reference Frames in Space", in: Architect and Engineer (San Francisco), Volume 165, April 1946, PP 10, 40, 44 45

1947

"Postwar Automobiles", in: Architect and Engineer (San Francisco), Volume 168, February 1947, pp. 12-14
"Portrait", in: The Architectural Forum, February 1947, pp. 100-102
"The Schindler Frame", in: Architectural Record (New York), Band 101, May 1947, pp. 143-146
"Houses U. S. A.", (letter to the publisher), in: Architectural Forum (Boston), Volume 87, August 1947, p. 22

1950

"A Great Debate" (about United Nations building), in: Architectural Forum (Boston), November 1950, pp. 102-107

1951

"Space Architecture", in: Atelier (Sydney, Australia)' Volume 13, No 1, November 1951 pp 10-11

1952

"Visual Technique" (unpublished manuscript on the phenomenology of space), Los Angeles, 1952 (ADC)
"Museum of Modern Art" (letter to Mr. Drexler with a description of California architecture and the Lechner and the Kallis house), Hollywood April. 15, 1952 (ADC)


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