THE CAVE, THE TENT, AND THE HOUSE: REFLECTIONS ON SCHINDLER’S KINGS ROAD HOUSE

Authors : Yusuf Civelek

Pages : 27-50

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Publication Date : 2024-12-31

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :The Kings Road House, designed by Rudolph Schindler for himself in Los Angeles, demonstrates the architect’s concept of dwelling, which is unique in the history of modern architecture in certain aspects. Although Schindler’s house reflects spatial, formal and aesthetical developments in Modern architecture both in Europe and the United States, Schindler’s design is unique in the way it unites various influences in his own crucible of philosophical ideas and attitudes towards contemporary life in 1921, when the footsteps of Modernism was just beginning to be heard. One of the most important results of Schindler’s interpretation of Modernism is his use of the aspects tectonic culture as the genome of a spatial paradigm to invoke and reestablish the primordial bond between human-beings and the environment. The primitivism of the house is not simply a metaphor. The house was designed to facilitate this bond like a big furniture and to establish a common ground, which allows the dwellers and guests both to experience their private worlds as individuals, and to share the collective spirit of the camp life.
Keywords : Rudolph Schindler, Kings Road House, Barınma, Mimarlık, Modernizm, Tektonik Kültür