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Title: Friends of the Schindler House lecture series
Identifier/Call Number: 0000246
Contributing Institution:
Architecture and Design Collection, Art, Design & Architecture Museum
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
0.25 Linear feet
(2 cassette tapes, 3 CD-Roms)
Date: 1979
creator:
Banham, Rayner
creator:
McCoy, Esther, 1920-1989
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Partially processed collection, open for use by qualified researchers.
Custodial History note
Gift of Kathryn Smith, 2012.
Preferred Citation note
Friends of the Schindler House lecture series, Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University
of California, Santa Barbara.
Biographical/Historical note
Friends of the Schindler House (FOSH), is a nonprofit organization that was founded in 1976 by Schindler’s former wife Pauline.
FOSH acquired the Schindler house in 1980 with funding from the California Office of Historic Preservation. The nonprofit’s
mission is to preserve and maintain Schindler’s Kings Road house in West Hollywood, California.
Scope and Content note
The Friends of the Schindler House lecture series collection span .25 linear feet and dates from 1979. The collection is composed
of two recorded lectures organized by the Friends of the Schindler House and hosted at the University of Southern California.
Lectures include: “Schindler’s Architecture – Thick and Thin” by Rayner Banham on May 24, 1979 and “The 40s (on R. M. Schindler)”
by Esther McCoy on May 31, 1979.
Related Archival Materials note
R. M. Schindler papers, Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University of California, Santa
Barbara.
ADC Oral Hisotry collection, Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University of California,
Santa Barbara.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Schindler, R. M., (Rudolph M. ), 1887-1953
Lectures