Rudolf Michael Schindler was born in Vienna, 10 September 1887 and became an influential American architect of Austrian birth. He entered the Wagnersschule of the Vienna Polytechnic University in 1906 graduating in 1911.  Interested in the modern architecture developing in the United States, Schindler arrived in America in 1913.  He moved to Chicago and began to work for the firm of Ottenheimer, Stern, and Reichert.  In 1914, Schindler met Frank Lloyd Wright and was hired after Wright obtained the commission for the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo in Japan.  For the next two years, Schindler maintain Wright’s operations in the Oak Park Studio while the project kept Wright overseas.  Schindler moved to Los Angeles and established his own practice in 1921, convincing Richard Neutra to join him in 1923.  Schindler undertook the design and construction of his own home on Kings Road (1922) as both announcement of his presence in Los Angeles and as an exploration of its radical design and communal living arrangements.  The Lovell Beach House (1925- 6) in Newport Beach became another notable project.  Schindler’s primarily received residential commissions completing the Wolfe House (1928), the Oliver House (1934), and the Mackey Apartments (1939).  The home for J.J. Buck (1934) represents one of the architect’s purist expressions of the International Style and exists to this day. Schindler died in of 1953.  Schindler’s professional legacy is preserved in the Architecture and Design Collection at the University Art Museum at UC Santa Barbara and though extensive publications and exhibitions.