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The Case Study Houses were experiments in American residential architecture sponsored by Arts & Architecture magazine, which commissioned major architects of the day, including Richard Neutra,Raphael Soriano, Craig Ellwood, Charles and Ray Eames, Pierre Koenig and Eero Saarinen, to design and build inexpensive and

efficient model homes for the United States residential housing boom

caused by the end of World War II and the return of millions of soldiers.

The program ran intermittently from 1945 until 1966. The first six houses were built by 1948 and attracted more than 350,000 visitors. While not

all 36 designs were built, most of those that were constructed were built in Los Angeles; a few are in the San Francisco Bay Area, and one was built in Phoenix, Arizona. A number of them appeared in the magazine in iconic black-and-white photographs by architectural photographer Julius Shulman.

• no 21:Bailey House, by Pierre Koenig
• no 21;
• no 8: House for Charles Earnes;
• no 20: Richard Neutra, The Bailey Residence;
• no 9: House designed by Charles Eames for Case Study House program, sponsored by John Entenza
• no 22: Stahl house, Pierre Koenig;