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Design and Architecture

Schindler Church

Pastor Melvyn Ashley, Steve Wallet, Steve Lamb, Cindy Olnick, Robert Mace, Martin Fenlon, Chava Danielson and Capri Blountgather for the re-opening of the Bethlehem church on Compton Avenue in South Los Angeles designed in the mid-1940s by Modernist pioneer Rudolph Schindler and abandoned for several decades; DnA asks, how did Schindler come to…

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By Frances Anderton • May 10, 2014 • 1 min read

Pastor Melvyn Ashley, Steve Wallet, Steve Lamb, Cindy Olnick, Robert Mace, Martin Fenlon, Chava Danielson and Capri Blountgather for the re-opening of the Bethlehem church on Compton Avenue in South Los Angeles designed in the mid-1940s by Modernist pioneer Rudolph Schindler and abandoned for several decades; DnA asks, how did Schindler come to design this radical church in that location at that time?

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    Frances Anderton

    architecture critic and author

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    Frances Anderton

    architecture critic and author

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