Finding Aid for the Friends of the Schindler House lecture series, 1979 0000246
Finding aid prepared by Chris Marino
Architecture and Design Collection, Art, Design & Architecture Museum
Arts Building Room 1434
University of California
Santa Barbara, California, 93106-7130
805-893-2724
adc@museum.ucsb.edu
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
Partially processed collection, open for use by qualified researchers.
Gift of Kathryn Smith, 2012.
Friends of the Schindler House lecture series, Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University
of California, Santa Barbara.
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.
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
Box 1, Cassette 1, Box 1, Disk