Lovell Beach House, Newport Beach, California: 1925-26

Architect: Rudolph Schindler (1887-1953)

上世纪60年代末到70年代初，我在加州生活了四年，先是在加州大学洛杉矶分校(UCLA)学习，后来创办了一家名为Chrysalis的公司，做各种各样的实验项目。

I didn’t know about the Lovell Beach House before, but I remember going to see it with Peter Cook, Ron Herron and Arata Isozaki. I suspect they’d been put up to it by Reyner Banham who regarded it as one of the two seminal modern buildings of that period along with Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoye.

Access had been organised and the owners, Philip M Lovell and his wife Leah, were there when we visited – they must have been in their 80s by then and I remember looking down from the top floor and seeing them sitting on the sofa. Nothing had been done to the house since it was built in the 1920s, so it had a faded, well-worn look about it.

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