Case Study Houses: The Complete CSH Program 1945–1966 (First Edition)

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SMITH, Elizabeth A. T. (ed.; photography epilogue Julius Shulman; ed. Peter Goessel). Case Study Houses: The Complete CSH Program 1945–1966. Köln: Taschen GmbH, 2002. Oblong Folio (32 × 41 cm). Illustrated boards with colour photographic endpapers. Clear vinyl lettered dust wrapper. 440 pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black and white throughout, with photographs, architectural drawings, floor plans, and sketches. Text in English, French, and German. First edition, first printing. Publishers shipping box retained. Between 1945 and 1966, Arts Architecture magazine ran one of the most ambitious architectural programmes in American history. Its editor, John Entenza, commissioned a series of prototype houses intended to demonstrate that modern design could be both architecturally serious and practically affordable in the post-war building boom. The programme, concentrated in the Los Angeles area, was called the Case Study House Program, and it produced thirty-six experimental homes that collectively constitute the most coherent body of post-war residential modernism ever realised in a single city. The architects Entenza recruited were the most significant of their generation. Visionaries such as Richard Neutra, whose Case Study House #20 of 1948 extended the principles of his celebrated Kaufmann Desert House into the suburban lot. The visual documentation of the programme was largely the work of Julius Shulman (1910–2009), the pre-eminent architectural photographer of the

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