Vienna to Los Angeles

About this book

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.