THE CAVE, THE TENT, AND THE HOUSE: REFLECTIONS ON SCHINDLER’S KINGS ROAD HOUSE

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The Kings Road House, designed by Rudolph Schindler for himself in Los Angeles, demonstrates the architect’s concept of dwelling, which is unique in the history of modern architecture in certain aspects. Although Schindler’s house reflects spatial, formal and aesthetical developments in Modern architecture both in Europe and the United States, Schindler’s design is unique in the way it unites various influences in his own crucible of philosophical ideas and attitudes towards contemporary life in 1921, when the footsteps of Modernism was just beginning to be heard. One of the most important results of Schindler’s interpretation of Modernism is his use of the aspects tectonic culture as the genome of a spatial paradigm to invoke and reestablish the primordial bond between human-beings and the environment. The primitivism of the house is not simply a metaphor. The house was designed to facilitate this bond like a big furniture and to establish a common ground, which allows the dwellers and guests both to experience their private worlds as individuals, and to share the collective spirit of the camp life.

Anahtar Kelimeler

• Rudolph Schindler
• Kings Road House
• Dwelling
• Architecture
• Modernism
• Tectonic Culture

MAĞARA, ÇADIR VE EV: SCHINDLER’İN KINGS ROAD EVİ ÜZERİNE TESPİTLER

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Rudolph Schindler'in Los Angeles'ta kendi için inşa ettiği Kings Road Evi, bazı özellikleri açısından mimarın Modern mimarlık tarihinde eşsiz denebilecek barınma kavrayışını sergiler. Bu ev Avrupa ve Amerika'daki Modern mimarlıkta gerçekleşen mekânsal, biçimsel ve estetik gelişmeleri yansıtsa da, Modernizmin ayak seslerinin yeni yeni duyulmaya başlandığı 1921 yılında, mimarın çeşitli etkileri felsefî fikirler ve çağdaş hayata değin tavırlarla şekillenmiş olan kendi kabında birleştirmesi bakımından kendine has özellikleri hâizdir. Schindler'in Modernizm yorumunun en önemli sonuçlarından biri, mekânsal bir paradigmanın çekirdeği olarak nitelenebilecek tektonik kültürün özelliklerini insanın çevreyle ezelî bağını hatırlatmak ve yeniden tesis etmek için kullanmasıdır. Bu açıdan evin yansıttığı ilkellik sadece bir metafordan ibaret değildir. Ev, aynı zamanda bu bağı kurmayı adeta büyük bir mobilya gibi kolaylaştıracak ve içinde barınanları ve misafirlerini hem kendi kişisel dünyalarını, hem de bir kamp hayatının kolektif ruhunu yaşama fırsatı veren ortak bir zemin sağlayacak şekilde tasarlanmıştır.

Anahtar Kelimeler

• Rudolph Schindler
• Kings Road House
• Barınma
• Mimarlık
• Modernizm
• Tektonik Kültür

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