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Case Study Houses in California 1945-1966: A Selective Bibliography Compiled by Aileen Smith, August 2007 This bibliography consists of a selective list of books and articles relating to Case Study House Program in California 1945-1966. Those books held within the AA Library are indicated with a shelfmark.

Books (Alphabetically by title) Blueprints for modern living: history and legacy of the case study houses / Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles / exhibition organized by Elizabeth A T Smith; essays by Esther McCoy and others Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1989 ISBN 0262692139 AA SHELFMARK: 728.3.036(794) MUS

Case study houses 1945-1962 / Esther McCoy Ingalls, 1977

Los Angeles: Hennessey and

AA SHELFMARK: 728.3.036(794) MCC

Case study houses: the complete CSH program 1945-1966 / Elizabeth A T Smith Koln: Taschen, 2001 ISBN 3822864129 AA SHELFMARK: 728.3.036(794) SMI (REF-MLC)

Details of modern architecture vol.2: 1928-1988 / Edward R Ford Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1996 ISBN 0262061856 (includes Saarinen, Eames, Fuller, and the case study houses: 1940-1959) AA SHELFMARK: 69.02:72.036 FOR

Key houses of the twentieth century: plans, sections and elevations / Colin Davies London: Laurence King, 2006 AA SHELFMARK: 728.3.036 DAV

Presence of the case study houses / Ethel Buisson and Thomas Billard Basel: Birkhauser, 2004 ISBN 3764371188 AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(794) BUI

Twentieth century American house: masterworks of residential architecture / edited by Kenneth Frampton and David Larkin London: Thames and Hudson, 1995 ISBN 0500341435 (includes Eames House, Case Study House no.8, Pacific Palisades, LA (Charles and Ray Eames); and Case Study House no.16, Bel Air (Craig Ellwood)) AA SHELFMARK: 728.3.036(73) FRA

Journal Articles (Chronologically by year and month) 2006 ‘Koenig’s Case Study House no.21 to be sold at auction’ / article by Jeremy Lehrer in Architectural Record vol.194 no.11 November 2006 / p.29 2004 ‘Case Study House, California, 1945 : action’ / article by Luc Baboulet in Architecture d’Aujourd’hui no.353 July/August 2004 / p.40-49 (text in French+English) ‘Case Study Houses and the Shulman case’ / article by Claudine Mulard in Architecture d’Aujourd’hui no.353 July/August 2004 / p.50-59 (text in French+English) 2003 ‘The Case Study Houses of Los Angeles: blueprints for modern living at midcentury’ / article by Elizabeth A T Smith in Ptah no.1 2003 / p.72-79 2002 ‘Residential masterpieces: Case Study House no.21, Los Angeles, Calif., 1958; Architects: Pierre Koenig’ / article by Pierre Koenig in GA Houses no.71 May 2002 / p.32-47 (text in Japanese+English)

2000 ‘Case Study House no.22, Hollywood, Los Angeles, Ca, 1959; designed by Pierre Koenig’ in A+U: Architecture and Urbanism no.10 supplement October 2000/ p.142-151 (text in Japanese+English) 1999 ‘Le Case Study House Program et la tradition americaine [The Case Study House Program & the American tradition] / article by Luc Baboulet in Moniteur Architecture AMC no.98 May 1999 / p.56-63 (text in French) 1997 ‘The modern house in the postwar period. 4: Simply steel. Case Study House no.21 by Pierre Koenig, Los Angeles, California’ / article by Ken Tadashi Oshima in A+U: Architecture and Urbanism no.8 (323) August 1997 / p.3-9 (text in Japanese+English) 1993 ‘The case study houses, then and now; an architect for better living’ / article by Abby Bussel (includes an interview with Pierre Koenig, an architect of two Case Study Houses of the 1950s, remains a forceful advocate for Modernism’s social programme and the benefits of industrialization) in Progressive Architecture vol.74 no.5 May 1993 / p.110-114 1990 ‘Blueprints for Modern Living: history and legacy of the Case Study Houses’ / article by Mary Banham in AA Files no.20 Autumn 1990/ p.77-82 ‘Een volstrekt Amerikaanse avant-garde: de Case Study Houses in het naoorlogse Los Angeles [An absolutely American avant-garde: the Case Study Houses in post-war Los Angeles]’ / article by Hans van Dijk in Archis no.11 November 1990 / p.38-45 (text in Dutch)

1989 ‘Quattro case sperimentali [Four experimental houses] ‘/ article by Marco Visconti (John Entenza, enlightened editor of ‘Arts & Architecture’, launched in 1945 the Case Study house program, to enhance the role of modern architecture and technology in the resolution of economic and social problems….examines CSH no.8 designed by Charles and Ray Eames; CSH no.18 designed by Craig Ellwood; CSH no.21 designed by Pierre Koenig; CSH no.22 designed by Pierre Koenig) in Domus no.711 December 1989 / p.72-84 (text in Italian+English) ‘Itinerario Domus: 52 [Domus itinerary: 52: Case Study Houses e Los Angeles [Case Study Houses and Los Angeles]’ / article by Werner Lang and Marco Visconti in Domus no.711 December 1989 / p.XIII-XVIII (text in Italian+English) ‘Case study celebration: a look a the Case Study Housing Program in post-war Los Angeles’ / article by Michael Glickman in Architectural Review vol.186 no.1112 October 1989 / p.97-99 1981 ‘On the Mies edge – The Case Study Program [involving architects Eames, Ellwood, Koenig, Soriano and later Neutra and Wurster] occupies a key position in the line of research which aimed at the creation of a typology for the onefamily house using logical and infinitely reproducable systems’ / article by Olivier Boissiere in Domus no.614 February 1981 / p.11-15 (text in Italian+English) 1975 ‘Arts & Architecture Case Study Houses…program begun in 1945 to build modern single-family houses as a forum for talented architects’ / article by Esther McCoy in Perspecta no.15 1975 / p.54-73

1957 ‘Case Study Houses no.18, Los Angeles; Architects: Craig Ellwood Associates. No.19, Atherton, near San Francisco; Architect: Don Knorr – landscape plan’ in Arts & Architecture December 1957 / p.20-21 in Arts & Architecture November 1957 / p.18-19, 35 in Arts & Architecture August 1957 / p.12-15

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Compiled by Aileen Smith, Deputy Librarian August 2007