Lovell Beach House
Completed in 1926, the Lovell Beach House in Newport Beach is internationally acclaimed as one of the greatest works of pioneering modern architect Rudolf Schindler. As a member of Frank Lloyd Wright’s team at Taliesin, Schindler came to Los Angeles to work on the design for Aline Barnsdall’s residence, Hollyhock House. Through Barnsdall, he met healthy living guru Phillip Lovell who hired him to build his vacation house. The house is lifted above its beach site and cradled in five concrete frames in the shape of figure 8s. The use of unsurfaced concrete in a pattern of solids and voids in which the structural skeleton is distinct from the enclosure predates and predicts the post-war Brutalist style. The house was added to National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
Newport Beach, Orange County
Photographer: John Bare