obsession with transparency to an extreme level of sophistication, combin-
ing it with a strong awareness of the effects of texture. Schindler had
worked in the office of Frank Lloyd Wright at the time when that architect
was designing Tokyo’s Imperial Hotel. Like Wright himself, and many
other Modernist architects, Schindler was indebted to the minimal, func-182 tional, and spiritually-unified spaces of the traditional Japanese home
The interior in Rudolf M. Schindler’s Kings Road House, Los Angeles, 1921 – 2.