Case Study Houses
The program Case Study Houses ( German case study houses ) was an attempt in the field of experimental house architecture which provided the design and the construction of simple, inexpensive model homes. This measure had become necessary in light of the housing shortage in the United States in the post-war years, which was caused by the return of millions of soldiers at the end of the Second World War. The program, which ran intermittently from 1945 to 1966, was sponsored by Arts & Architecture magazine . As a staunch advocate of modernism, its publisher John Entenza was able to engage renowned architects such as Richard Neutra , Raphael Soriano , Craig Ellwood , Charles and Ray Eames , Pierre Koenig and Eero Saarinen . An attempt was made to develop new forms of living. The Case Study Houses program thus represents an extraordinary and unique innovative episode in the history of American architecture and had a strong influence on the development of American and international architecture.
A total of 36 houses were designed, not all of which were realized. The first six were completed by 1948 and attracted more than 350,000 visitors. Most of the case study houses were built in the Los Angeles area , some also in the San Francisco region and one in Phoenix . A number of them have been featured in Arts & Architecture , with photographs by Julius Shulman .
List of case study houses
| number | Surname | Architect (s) | Publishing | Construction year | status | Location | city | Arts & Architecture PDF link |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | JR Davidson | February 1948 | 1948 | Available | 10152 Toluca Lake Avenue | North Hollywood | CSH # 1 (PDF; 3.8 MB) | |
| 2 | Sumner Spaulding and John Rex | August 1947 | 1947 | Available | 857 Chapea Road | Pasadena | CSH # 2 (PDF; 2.4 MB) | |
| 3 | William Wurster and Theodore Bernardi | March 1949 | 1949 | Available | 12187 Chalon Road | los Angeles | CSH # 3 (PDF; 2.0 MB) | |
| 4th | Greenbelt House | Ralph Rapson | September 1945 | draft | CSH # 4 (PDF; 1.3 MB) | |||
| 5 | Loggia House | Whitney R. Smith | April 1946 | draft | CSH # 5 (PDF; 926 kB) | |||
| 6th | omega | Richard Neutra | October 1945 | draft | CSH # 6 (PDF; 2.2 MB) | |||
| 7th | Thornton Abell | July 1948 | 1948 | Available | 634 North Deerfield Avenue | San Gabriel | CSH # 7 (PDF; 1.1 MB) | |
| 8th | Eames House | Charles and Ray Eames | December 1949 | 1949 | Available | 203 Chautauqua Boulevard | Pacific Palisades | CSH # 8 (PDF; 3.7 MB) |
| 9 | Entenza House | Charles Eames and Eero Saarinen | July 1950 | 1949 | Rebuilt | 205 Chautauqua Boulevard | Pacific Palisades | CSH # 9 (PDF; 3.4 MB) |
| 10 | Kemper Nomland and Kemper Nomland, Jr. | October 1947 | 1947 | Available | 711 San Rafael Avenue | Pasadena | CSH # 10 (PDF; 1.9 MB) | |
| 11 | JR Davidson | July 1946 | 1946 | Tore off | 540 South Barrington Avenue | West Los Angeles | CSH # 11 (PDF; 3.1 MB) | |
| 12 | Whitney R. Smith | February 1946 | draft | CSH # 12 (PDF; 2.7 MB) | ||||
| 13 | alpha | Richard Neutra | March 1946 | draft | CSH # 13 (PDF; 3.5 MB) | |||
| 15th | JR Davidson | January 1947 | 1947 | Available | 4755 Lasheart Drive | La Cañada Flintridge | CSH # 15 (PDF; 1.2 MB) | |
| 16 | Rodney Walker | February 1947 | 1947 | Tore off | 9945 Beverly Grove Drive | Beverly Hills | CSH # 16 (PDF; 2.1 MB) | |
| 17A | Rodney Walker | July 1947 | 1947 | Available | 7861 Woodrow Wilson Drive | los Angeles | CSH # 17 (PDF; 909 kB) | |
| 17B | Craig Ellwood | March 1956 | 1956 | Available | 9554 Hidden Valley Road | Beverly Hills | CSH # 17 (PDF; 5.1 MB) | |
| 18A | West House | Rodney Walker | February 1948 | 1948 | Available | 199 Chautauqua Boulevard | Pacific Palisades | CSH # 18 (PDF; 1.7 MB) |
| 18B | Craig Ellwood | February 1958 | 1958 | Available | 1129 Miradero Road | Beverly Hills | CSH # 18 (PDF; 2.7 MB) | |
| 19th | Don Knorr | September 1947 | draft | CSH # 19 (PDF; 516 kB) | ||||
| 20A | Richard Neutra | December 1948 | 1948 | Available | 219 Chautauqua Boulevard | Pacific Palisades | CSH # 20 (PDF; 23.9 MB) | |
| 20B | Bass House | C. Buff, C. Straub, D. Hensman | November 1958 | 1958 | Available | 2275 Santa Rosa Avenue | Altadena | CSH # 20 (PDF; 30.8 MB) |
| 21A | Richard Neutra | May 1947 | draft | CSH # 21 (PDF; 925 kB) | ||||
| 21B | Bailey House | Pierre Koenig | February 1959 | 1958 | Available | 9048 Wonderland Park Avenue | West hollywood | CSH # 21 (PDF; 2.3 MB) |
| 1950 | Raphael Soriano | December 1950 | 1950 | Rebuilt | 1080 Ravoli Drive | Pacific Palisades | CSH1950 (PDF; 2.0 MB) | |
| 1953 | Craig Ellwood | June 1953 | 1953 | Available | 1811 Bel Air Road | Bel Air | CSH1953 (PDF; 3.0 MB) | |
| 22nd | Steel house | Pierre Koenig | June 1960 | 1960 | Available | 1635 Woods Drive | West hollywood | CSH # 22 (PDF; 2.3 MB) |
| 23 | Triad | Killingsworth , Brady, Smith & Assoc. | March 1961 | 1960 | Available | Rue de Anna | La Jolla | CSH # 23 (PDF; 29.5 MB) |
| 24 | A. Quincy Jones and Frederick E. Emmons | December 1961 | draft | CSH # 24 (PDF; 12.0 MB) | ||||
| 25th | Frank House | Killingsworth , Brady, Smith & Assoc. | December 1962 | 1962 | Available | 82 Rivo Alto Canal | Long Beach | CSH # 25 (PDF; 44.6 MB) |
| 26th | Harrison House | Beverley "David" Thorne | January 1963 | 1963 | Available | San Marino Drive | San Rafael | CSH # 26 (PDF; 5.4 MB) |
| 27 | Campbell and Wong | June 1963 | draft | CSH # 27 (PDF; 6.6 MB) | ||||
| 28 | C. Buff and D. Hensman | September 1965 | 1966 | Available | 91 Inverness Road | Thousand Oaks | CSH # 28 (PDF; 15.7 MB) | |
| Apt 1 | Alfred N. Beadle and Alan A. Dailey | September 1964 | 1964 | Available | 4402 28th Street | Phoenix (Arizona) | CSApts # 1 (PDF; 10.2 MB) | |
| Apt 2 | Killingsworth , Brady, Smith & Assoc. | May 1964 | draft | CSApts # 2 (PDF; 12.7 MB) |
literature
- Smith, Elizabeth / Gössel, Peter: Case Study Houses. The Complete CSH Program 1945-1966 (German, English, French). Cologne: Taschen, 2002