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No.8

by Schindler.

EM---In a way, yes. But he took a great deal from Neutra, more than he would admit, I'm sure [[crossed-out]] Lots of Neutra's are good buildings [[/crossed-out]] Neutra's buildings were [[crossed-out]] done [[/crossed-out]] very well built, and so were Ain's, and Schindler's were not well built. They were fragile to get them up cheaply.

MW---OK, so let's go back to Ain[[crossed-out]] s [[/crossed-out]]. So you say [[crossed-out]] this [[/crossed-out]] the D[[crossed-out]] a [[/crossed-out]]unsmuir flats is one of his best works.

EM---Yes, I do. It's strange, you know, it's so different from one side [[crossed-out]] from [[/crossed-out]] to the other, and he's always resented [[crossed-out]] that [[/crossed-out]] it's not being shown [[crossed-out]] with [[/crossed-out]] from the garden side. [[crossed-out]] He got the other, I mean the other one [[/crossed-out]] The north side is right out of Neutra, right out of the International Style. And that first house, [[crossed-out]] that [[/crossed-out]] the Edwards house is very Schindlerian. [[crossed-out]], that Edwards House [[/crossed-out]].

MW---So in that period, say late 1930's if you are an young architect, you'd be using Schindler and Neutra as sort of Cartesian coordinate-point of references.

EM---Yes, true. Absolutely true. And there wasn't anything else.

MW---There's no one else ?

EM---Well, the Europeans, I mean. Ain was always closer to the Europeans than he was to America because of his background and then [[crossed-out]] Neutra, I mean [[/crossed-out]] Soriano was very close to the Europeans too.

MW---How was the influence from Frank Lloyd Wright to the younger generation ?

EM---Well, there was a period during the 50's [[crossed-out]] where there was the out here. [[/crossed-out]] in Los Angeles when there was the switch, or there [[crossed-out]] was a [[/crossed-out]] were two parallel groups; the European inspired and the Wright inspired, and they did parallel each other.

The Wright---his houses here [[crossed-out]] had been [[/crossed-out]] were rather ornate, of [[crossed-out]] the block, you know, [[/crossed-out]] the textured block period, and the postwar [[crossed-out]] was a [[/crossed-out]] period of, as it [[crossed-out]] is of [[/crossed-out]] was after the First World War---a period of austerity. So decoration was out. As was typical for a postwar period. [[crossed-out]] And they felt this was more proper for period of inflation---the inflation was really rifted during the postwar period. Nothing compared with what it was 5 years ago. But--- [[/crossed-out]]