The How House has been extensively documented and analyzed.1 Before I visited it, I thought I would just do one article of my photos. After all, what could I say that hasn’t already been said? However, I changed my mind after I visited the house. I noticed things I hadn’t expected, things that I wanted to figure out and explain. My simple article has grown to include a digital model and analysis, so I can talk about what I found. Continue reading RM Schindler’s How House, 1925, part 1 of 4, introduction→
Ever since I started making digital models, I have been looking for a way to share them with my readers. Not static images, but models you can interact with; zoom in, rotate and move around. There’s something about actually manipulating a model that gives you a real sense of it as a three dimensional object.
After much research, I found a way to do this!
For my first, but not last, interactive model I have taken a piece of my affordable housing prototype model. You don’t need special software, just free Adobe Reader. And most computers now come with Adobe Reader installed. Click on “Continue reading” and the model will load.
PATIENCE It takes about 20 seconds for the model to load.
The windows in the Elmer House are an unusual late Schindler design. They are unframed pieces of glass, with glued-on handles, that slide in grooves in the frame like the doors of a china cabinet. (fig 1) I first noticed this Schindler window in the original Shulman photos of the Erlik House, at the Getty Institute web site. I was excited to see them, still in use, in the Skolnick House.(fig 2, handles have fallen off) An interesting way to radically simplify window construction.
Can’t help myself…
