Case Study Houses - Reviews
"Case Study Houses, by Elizabeth A.T. Smith and published by TASCHEN, is a true gem that documents this Southern California house design program, the Case Study Houses program (1945-66). This book provides a comprehensive documentation of 36 prototype low-cost modern homes built in America that redefined the modern home."John Oswald CEO Paul Frank Industries, USA.Today.com, Washington D.CUnited States |
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"It's a huge coffee-table (make that a banqueting-table) book, which analyses each of the houses in chronological order, with plans, sketches and glorious photographs."The Observer Life MagazineUnited Kingdom |
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"Case Study Houses, by Elizabeth A.T. Smith and published by TASCHEN, is a true gem that documents this Southern California house design program, the Case Study Houses program (1945-66). This book provides a comprehensive documentation of 36 prototype low-cost modern homes built in America that redefined the modern home."John Oswald CEO Paul Frank Industries, USA.Today.com, Washington D.C.United States |
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"He aquí el libro que afianzó la tendencia de publicar volúmenes monumentales en formatos XXL sobre arquitectura. Publicado en 2002 fue, además, responsable del revival de la glamorosa visión californiana del Movimiento Moderno."AD, MadridSpain |
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"TASCHEN frequently does the design world an enormous favour by putting together titanic collections of otherwise unavailable imagery. Case Study Houses is long and lean, just like a cantilevered Koenig or an elegant Ellwood. As well as kick starting the current interest in the glamorous post-war era of residential design, the book also gave photographer Julius Shulman's career a well-deserved boost, and it opened the floodgates to many more magisterial monographs as architects and photographers alike realised that size really was everything."Wallpaper, LondonUnited Kingdom |
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"This volume is a monumental retrospective of the Case Study program that, from 1945-66, oversaw the design of 36 prototype homes in the Los Angeles area. The program sought to make available plans for modern residences that could be easily and cheaply constructed during this post-war building boom. With comprehensive documentation, photographs, extensive floor plans and sketches, the book also includes contemporary photos of the homes still in existence."MetroLA, Los AngelesUnited States |
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"The Arts & Architecture-sponsored brainchild of John Entenza has been revitalized in this grand tome. Thirty of the projects from the magazine`s Case Study program are portrayed in stunning photographs, detailed drawings, and clear essays."The Architect's Newspaper, New YorkUnited States |
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"Wer sich einmal in die 439 Seiten vertieft hat, beginnt danach, sein Heim umzubauen ... oder von fantastischen Ausblicken, raffinierten Wohnlösungen und eindrucksvollen Häusern zu träumen."Massiv, ZürichSwitzerland |
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"Photographer Julius Schulman was affiliated with CSH from the very beginning, and took many of the definitive images of the houses that fill the book. His brilliant color images are stunning, and some of the black-&-white images are true works of art."The Nashville Scene, NashvilleUnited States |
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"The large book (with its helpful plastic cover) lushly renders each project in colour and in gorgeous black, sepia and white...(...) this book`s aim is not to provide cultural context or criticism but to provide generous access to images and let them do the talking. It is the kind of reading that invited poring over the visual to ponder spatial and material decisions."The Architectural Review, LondonUnited Kingdom |
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Gössel, Peter (Editor)
Smith, Elizabeth Hardcover, 33.2 x 25.7 cm (13.1 x 10.1 in.), 440 pages $ 70.00 |
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What I read / John Oswald CEO and co-founder of Paul Frank Industries
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