{"product_id":"blueprints-for-modern-living-history-and-legacy-of-the-case-study-houses-9780262692137","title":"Blueprints for Modern Living: History and Legacy of the Case Study Houses","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner of the 1999 Philip Johnson Award presented by the Society of Architectural Historians. essays by Reyner Banham  Dolores Hayden  Thomas Hine  Thomas S. Hines  Esther McCoy  Helen Searing  Elizabeth A. T. Smith  and Kevin Starr  One of Southern Californias most significant contributions to modern architecture was the Case Study House program sponsored by John Entenzas Art \u0026amp; Architecture magazine. Between 1945 and 1966  thirty-six experimental prototypes were designed and the majority built. Featuring some of the most important architects of the region and generationincluding Charles Eames  Craig Ellwood  A. Quincy Jones  Pierre Koenig  Richard Neutra  and Raphael Sorianothe program reflected the modernist goal of reinventing the house as a way of redefining living. A number of the essayists in the book suggest that what made the houses distinctive and influential was not so much their International Style modernism as how that style was domesticated and scaled to the single-family house. . . and how it forecast what came to be known as the California lifestyle.  In addition to the eight main essays  the book  which was based on a 1989-1990 exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA)  Los Angeles  contains entries by the exhibition curator  Elizabeth A. T. Smith  and research assistant Amelia Jones on the thirty-six Case Study projects  documentation of six projects commissioned by MOCA  biographies of the thirty architects involved in the program  and a wealth of photographs  drawings  plans  and scale models.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45279766085685,"sku":"ByrdShop_0262692139","price":315.48,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780262692137.jpg?v=1780609451","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/blueprints-for-modern-living-history-and-legacy-of-the-case-study-houses-9780262692137","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}