Manola Court (Sachs Apartments) by Rudolph Schindler in Silver Lake, Los Angeles

Designed between 1926 and 1939 by R.M. Schindler (1887–1953), one of the forefathers of Modern architecture, Manola Court (aka the Sachs Apartments) is a sixteen-unit apartment property on a street-to-street downward sloping lot in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles.

The architect, R.M. Schindler, was born and educated in Vienna. He moved to the United States in 1914, working briefly for Frank Lloyd Wright before starting his own Los Angeles-based practice. Schindler designed dozens of private and public spaces in Southern California—including single family homes, apartments, commercial spaces, and even one church—many of which featured attention to the seamless transition from indoors to outdoors and the extensive use of glass and wood, characteristics of the Modernist style with which he is usually associated. His use of a plaster skin as an affordable approach to residential projects broke the trend toward steel-and-concrete construction favored by his cohort: the Manola Court complex is an excellent example of an early plaster skin design. Designated a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument, the complex is nonetheless one of the lesser known of Schindler’s design.

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