The best houses of all time in L.A.

We asked an expert panel for its top 10 picks of the best Southern California homes.

Stories by Sean Mitchell

No. 1: Kings Road House Rudolph Schindler West Hollywood, 1921-22

If you imagine what most houses looked like in Los Angeles in the 1920s (Spanish, Victorian, shingle), the Schindler house would have been pretty exotic. "A radical rethinking of the man-made environment," as Schindler biographer David Gebhard put it, the house that the German-Austrian immigrant and Frank Lloyd Wright associate designed for himself and another family in the flatlands west of Hollywood forged a template for the now familiar indoor-outdoor lifestyle of Southern California. The house was really a duplex with a common kitchen, in keeping with its avant-garde communal premise.