In 1948, architect Rudolph Schindler designed these 20 apartments on a 19,143 square foot lot at 11833-37 Laurelwood Avenue. Unfortunately, the property is in bad condition, awaiting a buyer ($5.9 million asking price). It is also a “City of Los Angeles Cultural Historic Monument” #228.

“By the mid-’40s Schindler had designed enough multifamily units to be able to arrive at this elegant solution to dense dwelling on a long, skinny lot. The garages form a barrier on either side of the entry. Their solid massing with overhanging eaves seduces the visitor into the central walkway access, which seems to narrow and unfold, revealing the twenty apartments-ten on each side. The units are simultaneously fanned out and stepped up and then down on the undulating site. Arguably no architect has divided and conquered a rectangle so successfully.”-Barry Sloane, Art Forum, May 2001

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