Case Study Houses

The Case Study Houses were experiments in American residential architecture sponsored by Arts & Architecture magazine, which commissioned major architects of the day, including Richard Neutra, Raphael Soriano, Craig Ellwood, Charles and Ray Eames, Pierre Koenig, Eero Saarinen, A. Quincy Jones, Edward Killingsworth, Rodney Walker, and Ralph Rapson to design and build inexpensive and efficient model homes for the United States residential housing boom caused by the end of World War II and the return of millions of soldiers.

The program ran intermittently 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, and one was built in San Rafael, Northern California and one in Phoenix, Arizona. Of the unbuilt houses, #19 was to have been built in Atherton, in the San Francisco Bay Area, while #27 was to have been built on the east coast, in Smoke Rise, New Jersey.

A number of the houses appeared in the magazine in iconic black-and-white photographs by architectural photographer Julius Shulman.

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Further reading

• Entenza, John (January 1945) "Announcement: The Case Study House Program". Arts and Architecture
• McCoy, Esther. "Case Study Houses". 2nd edition. 1 June 1977, ISBN 978-0912158716, Hennessey & Ingalls
• Smith, Elizabeth A. T. (10 June 1989). Blueprints for Modern Living: History and Legacy of the Case Study Houses. Cambridge: MIT Press. ISBN 978-0262692137.
• Smith, Elizabeth and Peter Goessel (12 January 2002). Case Study Houses: The Complete CSH Program,. Taschen. ISBN 978-3822864128.
• Smith, Elizabeth A. T. (30 June 2006). Case Study Houses. Taschen. ISBN 978-3-8228-4617-9.
• Travers, David (January 2006) "About Arts & Architecture" Arts & Architecture website - accessed March 3, 2009

External links

• Case Study House Program of Arts & Architecture
• Article interviewing Rodney Walker's sons
• Info on CSH and Shulman at KCET
• Info on Case Study House 26, San Rafael