Entenza House

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The Entenza House ( Case Study House No. 9 ) is a residential building in Pacific Palisades , Los Angeles , designed by architects Charles Eames , Ray Eames and Eero Saarinen in 1949 as part of the Case Study Houses program. The client was John Entenza , editor and publisher of Arts & Architecture and organizer of the case study program.

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The building shared a building plot with the Eames House , built in the same year , the private residence of Charles Eames and his wife Ray. The Entenza House is separated from the neighboring building about 40 meters to the south-west by a heaped and planted earth wall. The same construction techniques were used in both houses - steel frames in each case. However, the architectural design is different. While the Eames House has two floors, the Entenza House strives towards the horizontal and corresponds to a bungalow . This is described with: "technological twins but architectural opposites ... a tendinous web ... a solid shell"

In addition to two bedrooms, the house has three bathrooms and a kitchen.

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John Entenza used the house only briefly. The later owners rebuilt it several times, removing original details and adding new ones that did not fit into the overall concept of Eames and Saarinen. After a sale for $ 1.6 million in 1991, architect Barry Berkus restored the house and restored it to its original shape. In addition, Berkus built another residential building next to Entenza House, to which Entenza House is connected by an arcade. The Entenza House has served as the property's guest house ever since. In 2008, the entire property was offered for $ 14 million.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pat Kirkham 1998: Charles and Ray Eames: designers of the twentieth century . The MIT Press, ISBN 978-0262611398 , p. 104.
  2. ↑ Barry A. Berkus 2000: Architecture / Art / Parallels / Connections . Images Publishing, ISBN 186470084X , p. 100.
  3. ↑ curbed Los Angeles: Breaking: Case Study No 9 For Sale In The Palisades  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Dead Link / la.curbed.com   , December 11, 2008

Coordinates: 34 ° 1 ′ 48.1 ″  N , 118 ° 31 ′ 8.4 ″  W.