Case Study Houses
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The Case Study Houses were experiments in residental architecture sponsored by John Entenza's Arts & Architecture magazine, which commissioned major architects of the day, including Richard Neutra, Raphael Soriano, Craig Ellwood, Charles and Ray Eames and Eero Saarinen, to design and build inexpensive and efficient model homes for the residential housing boom caused by the end of World War II and the return of millions of soldiers. The Eames' CSH #8 was assembled by hand labor in about three days.
The program ran from 1945 until 1966. The first six houses were built by 1948 and attracted more than 350,000 visitors. While not all 36 designs were built, most of those that were constructed were built in Los Angeles; a few are in the San Francisco Bay Area, and one has been reported in Phoenix, Arizona. A number of them appear in iconic black and white photographs by architectural photographer Julius Shulman.
A partial list of the houses and their architects:
- #1 Julius Ralph Davidson, North Hollywood
- #2 Sumner Spaulding and John Rex, built in Arcada in altered form
- #3 (unbuilt), William Wurster and Theodore Bernardi
- #4 The Greenbelt House (unbuilt), Ralph Rapson
- #5 (unbuilt), Whitney R. Smith
- #6 (unbuilt), Richard Neutra
- #7 Thornton Abell, built in San Gabriel in altered form
- #8 The Eames House, Charles and Ray Eames
- #9 The Entenza House, Charles Eames and Eero Saarinen
- #10 Kemper Nomland and Kemper Nomland Jr., in Pasadena
- #11 Julius Ralph Davidson
- #15 Julius Ralph Davidson
- #16 Craig Ellwood
- #17 Craig Ellwood
- #18 Craig Ellwood
- #19 (unbuilt), Don Knorr
- #20 The Saul Bass House, Buff, Straub, and Hensman. (Some sources have #20 listed as the Bailey House by Richard Neutra)
- #21 Pierre Koenig
- #22 The Stahl House, Pierre Koenig
- #24 A. Quincy Jones and Frederick E. Emmons
- #25 The Frank House, Edward Killingsworth and Brady and Smith, in Naples, California
- #26 David Thorne, in San Rafael, California
- #28 Buff, Straub, and Hensman
Other participating architects: Raphael Soriano and Rodney A. Walker.
References
- Smith, Elizabeth and Peter Goessel. Case Study Houses: The Complete CSH Program, 1945-1966. 2002, ISBN 3822864129
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