Case Study Houses
ケース・スタディ・ハウス / 1945–1966 / Style / Modern Architecture
The experimental housing program commissioned by Arts & Architecture for the postwar shortage: steel and glass from off-the-shelf parts, popularizing an image of bright modern living open to the California climate.
Lightness of steel and glass / Indoors flowing outdoors / Off-the-shelf components / Horizontally open plans
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