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Richard Neutra and Rudolph Schindler meet for one last time in new play, "The Princes of Kings Road" Amelia Taylor-Hochberg2015-09-15T17:28:00-04:00>2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/41/419b8f6ae3df6375e01939eec1fa2796?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Midcentury modernist architects Richard Neutra and Rudolph Schindler may have been good friends when they studied together in Vienna, but by the time they ran into one another one last time in a Los Angeles hospital in 1953, they were bitter enemies.
Ensemble Studio Theatre/L.A.'s production of The Princes of Kings Road, now playing at the Neutra Institute in Silver Lake, imagines what it might have been like in the hospital room they shared</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
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‘The Princes of Kings Road’: Neutra and Schindler the subject of a new site-specific play Nicholas Korody2015-06-10T18:47:00-04:00>2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/0m/0mifvy5rd291stts.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>Next September, the historic <a href="http://www.neutra.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Neutra Institute and Museum</a> in Silverlake will host a new play by Tom Lazarus entitled ‘The Princes of Kings Road.’ Based on a true events, the production imagines a reunion between the two iconic figures of LA modernism, Rudolf Schindler and Richard Neutra.</p><p>The architects have a storied history, which was recounted in a <a href="http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/1999/04/neutra-schindler-california-architect-feud" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Vanity Fair article</a> from 1999. After building his West Hollywood home (now the <a href="http://makcenter.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">MAK Center</a>), Schindler and his partner invited Neutra and his wife to live with them. The house was originally intended as a communal living space for two couples, with open-air "sleeping baskets" rather than bedrooms. But after five years of cohabitation and professional partnership – the two architects collaborated on an entry for the the League of Nations palace in Geneva – their relationship turned sour, transforming into a bitter rivalry.</p><p><img title="" alt="" src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/514x/76/76il07vd0s3u558k.jpg"></p><p>Lazarus' play imagines Schindler and Neutra reunited in a room at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital (now the bright blue Scien...</p>