Sunday, August 6, 2023

the rotary house

 

Because The Bride and I are jointly enamored with the Silverlake Neighborhood in Los Angeles, Zillow sends me alerts when houses come up for sale. It's also a way to "tour" the cool moderns when they come up for sale.

This one popped up this last week, and my first thought was: is this a lost Schindler? Not a Schindler, it turns out, but definitely a house influenced by Schindler down to its axiometric drawing. The architect is Robert Nicolais who proudly admits the Schindler influence and is the official woodworker for recreations of Schindler's furniture, including the furniture you see at the Schindler House. I also learned from Googling Mr. Nicolais that he sold a set to Donald Judd for Judd's house in Marfa, which means I saw Schindler's furniture before I knew of Schindler (and had assumed Judd had designed it).

Anywho, this is a dang cool place, built in 1990. It is enormous since Nicolais used the house for his design studio and shop. 

 














 


Saturday, June 24, 2023

for sale: the tucker house

 


For only the second time in its history, Schindler's Tucker House is on the market for a cool 3.2 mil. Even better, the listing gives us a peek of the interior and backside of this home. Listed by Crosby Doe Associates, who specialize in selling rather awesome places. My guess is all that steel down below for the foundation is post-construction.





























Friday, January 27, 2023

A.I. Schindler

 


AI art has been all over the interwebs lately, so I thought I'd have some fun and see what our robot overlords could do with R.M. Schindler thrown in the mix. The results are weird, echo Schindler, and don't dissappoint. I used DALL-E to generate these beautiful images. The titles are what I asked the AI to do. Be forewarned that the requests get dumb and dumber.

R.M Schindler building for the future:



R.M Schindler architecture for cats, digital art:


 




R.M Schindler home for modernist, architectural drawing:



 


R.M Schindler home for moderinst at in new york city, architectural drawing:





R.M Schindler home for modernist in austin, texas, architectural drawing.:





R.M Schindler modern version of the Lovell Beach House, architectural drawing:






R.M Schindler and frank gehry design a dog house, architectural drawing:





R.M Schindler and godzilla design a small, affordable home, architectural drawing:

 



R.M Schindler high on LSD designs a large gas station, architectural drawing:





R.M Schindler and a tardigrade have a baby and that baby get a degree in architecture and designs a skyscraper for Muleshoe, Texas, architectural drawing: