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 Stahl House, Case Study House #22

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.

List

Number	Name	Architect(s)	Publication	Constructed	Status	Address	City	Arts & Architecture PDF link	Virtual Globetrotting link
1		J. R. Davidson	February 1945	1945	Unbuilt			CSH#1
1		J. R. Davidson	February 1948	1948	Extant	10152 Toluca Lake Avenue	Los Angeles	CSH#1	VGT
2		Sumner Spaulding and John Rex	August 1947	1947	Extant	857 Chapea Road	Pasadena	CSH#2	VGT
3		William Wurster and Theodore Bernardi	March 1949[1]	1949	Demolished	13187 Chalon Road	Los Angeles	CSH#3	VGT
4	Greenbelt House	Ralph Rapson	September 1945	1989	Exhibit: Museum of Contemporary Art of Los Angeles			CSH#4
5	Loggia House	Whitney R. Smith	April 1946		Unbuilt			CSH#5
6	Omega	Richard Neutra	October 1945		Unbuilt			CSH#6
7		Thornton Abell	July 1948	1948	Extant	6236 North Deerfield Avenue[2]	San Gabriel	CSH#7	VGT
8	Eames House	Charles and Ray Eames	December 1949	1949	Extant	203 Chautauqua Boulevard	Pacific Palisades	CSH#8	VGT
9	Entenza House	Charles Eames and Eero Saarinen	July 1950	1949	Extant	205 Chautauqua Boulevard	Pacific Palisades	CSH#9	VGT, VGT
10		Kemper Nomland and Kemper Nomland, Jr.	October 1947	1947	Significantly Altered[3]	711 South San Rafael Avenue[4]	Pasadena	CSH#10	VGT
11		J. R. Davidson	July 1946	1946	Demolished	540 South Barrington Avenue	West Los Angeles	CSH#11
12		Whitney R. Smith	February 1946		Unbuilt			CSH#12
13	Alpha	Richard Neutra	March 1946		Unbuilt[5]			CSH#13
15		J. R. Davidson	January 1947	1947	Extant	4755 Lasheart Drive	La Cañada Flintridge	CSH#15	VGT
16		Rodney Walker	February 1947	1947	Demolished	9945 Beverly Grove Drive	Beverly Hills	CSH#16
16B	Salzman House	Craig Ellwood	June 1953	1953	Extant	1811 Bel Air Road	Bel-Air	CSH1953	VGT
17A		Rodney Walker	July 1947	1947	Extant	7861 Woodrow Wilson Drive	Los Angeles	CSH#17	VGT
17B		Craig Ellwood	March 1956	1956	Remodeled Beyond Recognition	9554 Hidden Valley Road	Beverly Hills	CSH#17
18A	West House	Rodney Walker	February 1948	1948	Extant	199 Chautauqua Boulevard	Pacific Palisades	CSH#18	VGT
18B	Fields House	Craig Ellwood	June 1958	1958	Remodeled Beyond Recognition	1129 Miradero Road	Beverly Hills	CSH#18	VGT
19A		Don Knorr	September 1947		Unbuilt			CSH#19
20A	Stuart Bailey House	Richard Neutra	December 1948	1948	Extant	219 Chautauqua Boulevard	Pacific Palisades	CSH#20	VGT
20B	Bass House	C. Buff, C. Straub, D. Hensman	November 1958	1958	Extant	2275 Santa Rosa Avenue	Altadena	CSH#20
21A		Richard Neutra	May 1947		Unbuilt			CSH#21
21B	Walter Bailey House	Pierre Koenig	February 1959	1958	Extant	9038 Wonderland Park Avenue	Los Angeles	CSH#21	VGT
1950		Raphael Soriano	December 1950	1950	Demolished	1080 Ravoli Drive	Pacific Palisades	CSH1950	VGT
22	Stahl House	Pierre Koenig	June 1960	1960	Extant	1635 Woods Drive	Los Angeles	CSH#22	VGT
23	Triad	Killingsworth, Brady, Smith & Assoc.	March 1961	1960	Extant (23A and 23C), 23B Remodeled Beyond Recognition[6]	2329 (C[7]), 2342 (A[8]) and 2343 (B[9]) Rue de Anne [10]	La Jolla	CSH#23	VGT
24		A. Quincy Jones and Frederick E. Emmons	December 1961		Unbuilt			CSH#24
25	Frank House	Killingsworth, Brady, Smith & Assoc.	October 1962	1962	Extant	82 Rivo Alto Canal	Naples, Long Beach	CSH#25	VGT
26	Harrison House	Beverley "David" Thorne	January 1963	1963	Extant	177 San Marino Drive	San Rafael	CSH#26	VGT
27		Campbell and Wong	June 1963		Unbuilt			CSH#27
28	Case Study House No. 28	C. Buff and D. Hensman	December 1965	1966	Extant	91 Inverness Road	Thousand Oaks	CSH#28	VGT
Apt 1		Alfred N. Beadle and Alan A. Dailey	September 1964	1964	Extant	4402 28th Street	Phoenix, Arizona	CSApts#1
Apt 2		Killingsworth, Brady, Smith & Assoc.	May 1964		Unbuilt			CSApts#2

Notes

1. "Case Study House #3, Orinda, CA, 1947". Online Archive of California. Retrieved 17 May 2023.
2. "case-study". www.aialosangeles.org. Archived from the original on 2016-05-07. Retrieved 2016-06-21.
3. "City of Pasadena Historic Preservation Commission" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-09-17.
4. "City of Pasadena Historic Preservation Commission" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-09-17.
5. CSH #13 was unbuilt, but has been identified with Neutra's Gordon Wilkins House (1949) in Pasadena. See: Lamprecht, Barbara (February 11, 2004). "The Mystery of Case Study House No. 13". Architecture. AllBusiness.com. Retrieved 2010-06-15.
6. "City of San Diego Historical Resources Board" (PDF).
7. "Triad (Case Study House #23C) | Los Angeles Conservancy". www.laconservancy.org. Retrieved 2016-06-21.
8. "Triad (Case Study House #23A) | Los Angeles Conservancy". www.laconservancy.org. Retrieved 2016-06-21.
9. "City of San Diego Historical Resources Board" (PDF).
10. "Modern San Diego". Archived from the original on 2013-05-24. Retrieved 2013-05-30.

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