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Bubeshko Apartments

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Bubeshko Apartments

Credit

© Grant Mudford

Site overview

Two apartment buildings comprise the Bubeshko Apartments, built for mother-and daughter Anastasia and Luby Bubeshko and completed in 1941. They were initially impressed with Schindler’s Sachs Apartments nearby, and were introduced to him through a family connection. The requirements for the original project were simple: a home that would also provide rental income and be part of a complex of living spaces flexible enough to accommodate whatever life would bring.

 

Schindler’s response was a vision of a “Greek hillside” - a framework for individuated apartments, each with a direct connection to the outdoors, that work collectively. Five unique units are divisible into a possible seven. The units share similar architectural themes but are distinct in size, configuration, orientation and finish.

Bubeshko Apartments

Julius Shulman photo after 1941

Credit

© J. Paul Getty Trust. Julius Shulman Photography Archive, Research Library at the Getty Research Institute (2004.R.10).

Site overview

Two apartment buildings comprise the Bubeshko Apartments, built for mother-and daughter Anastasia and Luby Bubeshko and completed in 1941. They were initially impressed with Schindler’s Sachs Apartments nearby, and were introduced to him through a family connection. The requirements for the original project were simple: a home that would also provide rental income and be part of a complex of living spaces flexible enough to accommodate whatever life would bring.

 

Schindler’s response was a vision of a “Greek hillside” - a framework for individuated apartments, each with a direct connection to the outdoors, that work collectively. Five unique units are divisible into a possible seven. The units share similar architectural themes but are distinct in size, configuration, orientation and finish.

Bubeshko Apartments

Original Clients: (far left - Anatasia Bubeshko; second from right - Luby Bubeshko)

Credit

courtesy Luby Bubeshko

Site overview

Two apartment buildings comprise the Bubeshko Apartments, built for mother-and daughter Anastasia and Luby Bubeshko and completed in 1941. They were initially impressed with Schindler’s Sachs Apartments nearby, and were introduced to him through a family connection. The requirements for the original project were simple: a home that would also provide rental income and be part of a complex of living spaces flexible enough to accommodate whatever life would bring.

 

Schindler’s response was a vision of a “Greek hillside” - a framework for individuated apartments, each with a direct connection to the outdoors, that work collectively. Five unique units are divisible into a possible seven. The units share similar architectural themes but are distinct in size, configuration, orientation and finish.

Bubeshko Apartments

Interior, Unit 2036

Credit

© Grant Mudford

Site overview

Two apartment buildings comprise the Bubeshko Apartments, built for mother-and daughter Anastasia and Luby Bubeshko and completed in 1941. They were initially impressed with Schindler’s Sachs Apartments nearby, and were introduced to him through a family connection. The requirements for the original project were simple: a home that would also provide rental income and be part of a complex of living spaces flexible enough to accommodate whatever life would bring.

 

Schindler’s response was a vision of a “Greek hillside” - a framework for individuated apartments, each with a direct connection to the outdoors, that work collectively. Five unique units are divisible into a possible seven. The units share similar architectural themes but are distinct in size, configuration, orientation and finish.

Awards

Design

Award of Excellence

Residential

2017

The Residential Design Award of Excellence is given for the restoration of the Bubeshko Apartments. Located in Los Angeles, California the Bubeshko Apartments is one of the few realized and intact multi-family dwellings designed by Rudolph M. Schindler. Though the financial viability of the project presented a challenge, the new owners sought to sensitively restore the complex in the original spirit of both the architecture and life of the buildings.

“Restoration of the Bubeshko Apartments is interesting not only because of what was done but because of what was not done. Instead of transforming the complex into luxury condominium pods, the owners and restoration team gave careful consideration to both the original intent of the architect and original owners thus insuring this unique addition to the cultural life of Los Angeles will be admired and enjoyed for years to come.”

- Justin Davidson
Client

Madeleine Brand &  Joe DeMarie

Restoration Team

Eric Haas, AIA & Chava Danielson, AIA - DSH Architecture (Restoration Architects)

Joe DeMarie (General Contractor)

Primary classification

Residential (RES)

Designations

City of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #831

How to Visit

Private Residence

Location

2036-2046 Griffith Park Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA, 90039

Country

US

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Credit:

© Grant Mudford

Julius Shulman photo after 1941

Credit:

© J. Paul Getty Trust. Julius Shulman Photography Archive, Research Library at the Getty Research Institute (2004.R.10).

Original Clients: (far left - Anatasia Bubeshko; second from right - Luby Bubeshko)

Credit:

courtesy Luby Bubeshko

Interior, Unit 2036

Credit:

© Grant Mudford

Designer(s)

Rudolph M. Schindler

Architect

Nationality

American

Related News

Celebrating the Best of Modernism

Newsletter, Modernism in America

October 12, 2017

Related chapter

Southern California

Commission

1940

Completion

1941

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