ABSTRACT
Los Angeles had already begun to grow because of oil and its climate. In early 1900s another seismic innovation introduced limitless inspiration, opportunity, and wealth, and that was the birth of motion-picture industry, which proceeded to power Los Angeles from the industry's beginning days right through to the present. It was this vitality, this exciting modernity, where a brand new art form was being invented, that Rudolph Schindler encountered when he came to Los Angeles. His first project was a house for his own family, to be shared by another family, the Chaces, who lived in a wing of the house. The Schindler Chace House was the first and one of the most significant houses of the Modernist movement. Perhaps the most radical of all his houses is the Lovell Beach House in Newport Beach, California. The Elliot House commences a series of houses that employ white stucco, including the Buck Residence, and the Wilson Residence, all in Los Angeles.
