The Lovell Beach House is located on the Balboa Peninsula in Newport Beach, California. The building was completed in 1926 and is now recognized as one of the most important works by architect Rudolf Schindler, the second after the Schindler House, was built four years earlier for his family as a show house and studio. Both these early homes by Schindler are considered as early modern architectural landmarks in America.
His residence is on the sea front, not far from The Wedge at Newport Harbor, in a crowded building. The house is sheltered from the road on the west side by raising the dwelling above the ground. The open space below shows the reinforced concrete frames formed in the shape of the number 8. Two ladders pass through openings in the frame to the kitchen and main entrance. The garage is on the north side of the ground floor and the garden is on the south side, between the house and the beach.
The interiors are arranged around a two storey living room/dining room, with full height, curtain wall windows on the east and south facing the ocean. The kitchen and breakfast area is located on the north side of the first floor, with a terrace on the ocean side above the garden. Built-in lights and furnishings are provided as part of the original design. The bedroom on the second floor is connected by a corridor facing the main living room. Each of the bedrooms initially had access to an open sleeping terrace, but this was covered by Schindler in 1928.
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Context
The client for this project, Philip M. Lovell, was inspired by a healthy lifestyle, with guidelines for proper diet and exercise. Schindler also adopted these principles and addressed this issue in the design of a beach house. Setting residence on the north side of the house maximizes fresh air circulation. Each room is equipped with a window for cross ventilation to eliminate the need for air conditioning.
Lovell also commissioned another home in Los Angeles. The Lovell "Health House" was completed in 1929 at Dundee Drive in Los Angeles, three years after Beach House finished. This commission was awarded to Richard Neutra, who lived with his wife in the Schindler's House and studios between 1926 and 1930. Both of these architects created a home that became the classic form of the new California housing design, and the icon of the Modern movement in America.
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Historical sense
The Los Angeles branch of the American Historic Buildings Survey (HABS) documented the house in 1968. The house today has many of the same features as photographs taken during the survey. The importance of the house was clear at the time:
Lovell Beach House is generally regarded as one of the greatest works of the pioneering modern architect, R. M. Schindler. This shows the early use of concrete that predates and predicts post-war Brutalism style, in which the concrete is left unorganized, and the structure is different from the enclosure.... The house was lifted above the beach site and cradled in five concrete frames in the shape of the 8's. It's poured in place. The coated areas were made by the factory and lifted into position. The game of forms in an advanced and receding field is related to the De Stijl movement which began in the Netherlands in 1917.
The Beach House was listed as Registered Historic Site in California on February 5, 1974.
See also
- Constructivist architecture
References
External links
- Media related to Lovell Beach House on Wikimedia Commons
- Great Architectural Buildings: P. Lovell House by Rudolf M. Schindler
- MAK Center: Schindler Home and Studio
- Architecture & amp; Collection of University Art Museum Design, University of California at Santa Barbara
- American Historic Buildings Survey (HABS) No.Ã, CA-1986, "Lovell Beach House, Newport Beach, 1242 West Ocean Front, Orange County, CA", 10 photos, 10 scalable images, 6 pages of data, 1 photo page description
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