The Presence of the Case Study Houses ebook

by Thomas Billard,Ethel Buisson

Thomas Billard Ethel Buisson Architecture English

Ethel Buisson (Author), Thomas Billard (Author). I think the book is a good complement to Elizabeth Smith's quite remarkable Blueprints for Modern Living: History and Legacy of the Case Study Houses published by MIT in 1989.

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Yet the book represents a potentially interesting investigation of the long-term prospects for radical and fashionable architecture when it passes from the field of the contemporary into that of the historic. Helped by the generally welcoming response of present-day owners, the intrepid French architects (Buisson is a Princeton graduate) somehow managed to gain entry to most of the surviving houses. Thornton Abell's CSH7, built in 1948, proved a problem.

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Case Study House Program in California 1945-1966. Those books held within the AA Library are indicated with a shelfmark. Books (Alphabetically by title).

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, 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 o. .

The great American housing experiment: Minimalism, the inspiration of art and wide spaces, lightness and an effective show-casing – these are just a few of the elements that link the Case Study Houses of architects Charles Eames, Eero Saarinen, Richard Neutra, Craig Ellwood et al. to the present day and contribute to their ongoing fascination and influence on housing concepts.