West Coast Modernism took hold in post-WWII with the “Case Study Houses” program. West Coast Modernism took hold in Southern California when Arts & Architecture Magazine sponsored the “Case ...

The Case Study Houses launched the reputations of local architects such as Thornton Bell, Whitney R. Smith and Rodney Walker. Artsandarchitecture Arts & Architecture: Case Study House Program ...

One example is the Beachside House, which is a contemporary project documented in Swisspearl Architecture Magazine. This settlement is located on the shore of Long Island Sound, which divides ...

Alexandra Staub, author and professor of architecture in the College of Arts and Architecture's Stuckeman School at Penn State, examines how architects can better serve society by changing their ...

The third Arts & Architecture Case Study House has a noticeably different sensibility to that of many of the other designs in the series. ... for example, or the #2 house by Spaulding and Rex.

Foreword and acknowledgments / Richard Koshalek -- Blueprints for modern living : history and legacy of the case study houses / Elizabeth A.T. Smith -- Arts & architecture case study houses / Esther ...

Now more than ever, architecture has to respond to the warming world around it. An era of extreme weather is upon us, one where New York’s winters often feel more like a chilly autumn in L.A ...

The first six houses in the Case Study House Program were begun in 1945 and built by 1948; they attracted more than 350,000 visitors. Twenty survive today, though some in much-altered condition.

Among the most ambitious and daring of these responses is Case Study: Adapt (CSA), a newly launched project inspired by the legendary Case Study program that galvanized the world of architecture ...