Schindler House
by Rudolf M. Schindler (West Hollywood, 1922)

Conceived as an experiment in communal living, the Schindler House was designed for two families: Rudolf and Pauline Schindler, and Clyde and Marian Chace. It featured shared kitchens and open courtyards. Tilted concrete walls, poured on-site and lifted into place, define a structure where space and landscape intertwine.

Standing inside, the first thing that strikes you is the light, soft and indirect, absorbed by concrete and canvas. The air feels open yet contained, the garden always present, surrounding the space and forming a moving image beyond the walls. Despite its serenity, you sense the life the house once held, artists, dancers, thinkers, and their gatherings, its corners still carrying the trace of conversation. A place where indoors and outdoors fold into one continuous gesture of living.

Now home to the MAK Center for Art and Architecture, founded in 1994 as an independent satellite of the MAK – Austrian Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, open to visitors with occasional special exhibitions.