Lovell Beach House

Rudolf Schindler – Lovell Beach House, Balboa Peninsula in Newport Beach, California USA, 1926

The building was completed in 1926 and is now recognized as one of the most important works by architect Rudolf Schindler, second only to Schindler House, built four years earlier for his family as a show house and studio. Both of these first Schindler houses are considered landmarks of modern architecture of early America.

The residence is located facing the ocean, not far from The Wedge at Newport Harbor, in a neighborhood of narrow buildings. The house is sheltered from the road on the west side by raising the accommodation above ground level. The underlying open space reveals the reinforced concrete structures that have formed.……Wikipedia…>>