Thursday, October 27, 2011, by Adrian Glick Kudler
Los Angeles is full of fantastic residential architecture in styles running all over from Spanish Colonial Revival to Streamline Moderne. But the Arts & Architecture-sponsored modernist Case Study Houses are both native to SoCal and particularly emblematic of the region (thank you, photographer Julius Shulman). The CSHes were intended to be relatively affordable, replicable houses for post-War family living, with an emphasis on "new materials and new techniques in house construction," as the magazine's program intro put it. Architects included the still-widely-remembered (Charles Eames, Richard Neutra) and the known-only-to-archinerds (JR Davidson, Thornton Abell). A&A ended up commissioning 36 houses and apartment buildings; a couple dozen were built and about twenty still stand in the greater Los Angeles area (there's also one in San Rafael, a set in La Jolla, and one in Phoenix), although some have been remodeled. Here's a guide to all the houses left to see (but keep in mind that, true to LA form, most are still private residences; the Eames and Stahl Houses are occasionally open to visitors). As for the wonky house numbering, post-1962 A&A publisher David Travers writes that the explanation is "inexplicable, locked in the past."
See Maps: http://la.curbed.com/archives/2011/10/the_case_study_house_map_of_los_angeles_1.php#more
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