Case Study Houses

Please allow 7 working days to process before shipping Immersion dyeing is a chance based process. Each shirt is an unpredictable recombination of the same colors. Los Angeles is full of fantastic residential architecture in styles, from Spanish Colonial Revival to Streamline Moderne. But the modernist Case Study Houses, sponsored by Arts & Architecture and designed between the 1940s and 1960s, are both native to Southern California and particularly emblematic of the region. The houses were intended to be relatively affordable, replicable houses for post-World War II family living, with an emphasis on “new materials and new techniques in house construction,” as the magazine's program intro put it. Architects involved included Charles and Ray Eames, Richard Neutra, and Pierre Koenig. The main inspiration of the thirty six houses designed for the program, was the desire of a generation of architects to realize affordable and modern houses to satisfy the post war building boom. Ev