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Author_Volker M. Welter
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Case Study Houses
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Ernst Hochfeld
Ernst Krenek
Frank Lloyd Wright
Fritz Block
German
Heinrich Kulka
J R Davidson
Jewish
Jock Peters
Julius Ralph Davidson
Kem Weber
Kohlmeier
Landahus Spanner
Lebrecht Migge
Los Angeles
Maria Kipp
modernist
Nazi
Nesbitt
Oskar Gerson
Paul Laszlo
Paul Theodore Frankl
refugee
Richard Neutra
Rudolph Schindler
Slechta
suburbia
Thomas Mann
urban
Victor Gruen
Villa Liebig
Walter Gropius
Walter S White
Weimar
World War II
Product details
- ISBN 9781606069868
- Dimensions: 241 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 18 Nov 2025
- Publisher: Getty Trust Publications
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In 1936, Leopold Fischer (1901-1975), in exile from Nazi Germany, arrived in California, where he created a small but distinct oeuvre of mostly domestic architecture. In contrast to his famous peers Rudolph Schindler and Richard Neutra, immigrants whose Southern California buildings are frequently examined-and who, like Fischer, studied with the modernist architect Adolf Loos-Fischer and his California structures have, until now, escaped the attention of architectural history.
Exiled in L.A. examines Fischer's important, yet overlooked, contributions to Southern California architecture. As the whereabouts of Fischer's archives remain unknown, Volker M. Welter grounds the designer's California works in comparison with his pre-exile projects and the compositions of fellow architects in California. In the 1920s, Fischer created experimental working-class housing estates in Germany that pioneered ecological construction and living practices. Comparable to their predecessors, Fischer's California buildings revolve around the "functioning, the organization of a home," as he defined domestic architecture in 1926. Featuring new photography and detailed architectural plans, this book is an original contribution to the literature on Southern California's built heritage.
Volker M. Welter is a professor in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Tremaine Houses: One Family's Patronage of Domestic Architecture in Midcentury America (Getty, 2019).
