This case-study like New Zealand home has a fame of timber clad in alternating modules of stained plywood and colorful, semitransparent polycarbonate.
"As a Case Study House—most materials and techniques which have been used here are standard to residential architecture. In the structural system that evolved from these materials and techniques, it was not difficult to house a pleasant space for living and working....Color was planned and used as a structural element, and while much concern was given to its use in the various structural planes, the most gratifying of all the painted surfaces is the dark, warm gray that covers the structural steel and metal sash." —Charles Eames, architect, as published in the December 1949 issue of Art & Architecture. Image courtesy Edward Stojakovic/Flickr. #iconic #losangeles #eames #charleseames #rayeames #casestudy #entenza #johnentenza #artsandarchitecture
Buck and Carlotta Stahl paid $35,000 in 1960 for their residence designed and built by architect Pierre Koenig as part of the Case Study House program launched by John Entenza, publisher of Arts & Architecture magazine. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. "Mom had read about Pierre and heard he liked working with industrial materials. In order to get this house made it would have to be with steel. Back then steel wasn’t very conventional. You couldn’t have built this house from wood—the windows wouldn’t hold up. So they used Bethlehem Steel." —Bruce Stahl, son of Buck and Carlotta, who grew up in Case Study House #22, in a 2015 issue of Los Angeles Magazine. © J. Paul Getty Trust. Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (2004.R.10). #iconic #losangeles #casestudy #pierrekoenig #koenig #stahlhouse #stahl #steel #entenza #artsandarchitecture