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 Los Angeles: Hennessey and
Ingalls, 1977
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
Koenigs 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 dAujourdhui 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 dAujourdhui 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 mid-
century / 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 Modernisms 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 one-
family 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 Housesprogram 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

Website
www.artsandarchitecturemag.com/case.houses/index.html

Compiled by Aileen Smith, Deputy Librarian

August 2007