Rudolf Schindler's historic
Pueblo Ribera,
La Jolla, California
"...a simple wave of a few materials articulates
space into rooms..." Rudolf
M. Schindler
Pueblo Ribera is a complex of 12 units designed and
constructed by Rudolf Schindler in the early 1920's. Innovative
in design and construction technologies, these units are the
only example of Schindler's work in San Diego, California.
Originally, each unit consisted of one bedroom on a single
level, with the upper level designed as a sleeping porch.
Each unit has a common wall with one other, with privacy and
a spectacular view of historic Windansea Beach, La Jolla.
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The Pueblos were designated historic site #117 by the San Diego
Historical Society in 1977.
Pueblo Ribera is in the Great Buildings Collection, a multimedia
encyclopedia of architecture on Macintosh CD-ROM. ISBN 0-442-01758-8)
is published world-wide by Van Nostrand Reinhold (VNR), 115 Fifth
Avenue, New York, NY 10003.
Our own particular unit has had the sleeping porch transformed
into the master bedroom. We are currently attempting to restore
the unit to its original granduer, restoring fixtures hidden by
subsequent so-called architects and do-it-yourselfers, and removing
the many coats of paint applied by earlier owners from the old
redwood beams and concrete composed of sand from WindanSea beach.
(Click on the images above for larger pictures)
Its amazing how many people have published CAAD drawings of
the Pueblo's on the net. The following links to their respective
pages are proof.
- University of Columbia Graduate School of Architecture (Building
Technologies) had an interesting page at http://www.columbia.edu/~archpub/BT/P_RIB/p-rib.html
but they have disallowed access. I would like to thank the students
who performed this work (Sean Daley, Danielle Etzler, Eric Mauer,
Martin Wiener and perhaps others). As a tribute, I have copies
of their 2 MPEG movies that you may wish to view; the first is
a fly-through (935Kb)
and the second is a movie of the slip-form construction
technique (320Kb).
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Last update: 4 February, 2002.
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