Commission brief: John Entenza announced the Case Study House
Program in Los Angeles’s Arts and Architecture magazine. The
magazine published and built thirteen “case study” homes. Design
brief: The homes would be a built from new materials and
industrial technologies developed during the war.
Building/construction: The steel frame uses four inch H-columns
for the walls and 12 inch deep open web joists for the roof with
exposed corrugated metal decking for the roof. The exterior of
the home is made of different size panels of plywood, asbestos,
and pylon; a type of fiberglass. The panels are represented in
different colors of blue, cream, and red. The panels are
different sizes and come together to look like Mondrian
painting. The site of the building is on a three-acre parcel of
land that overlooks the Pacific Ocean. The land is located on
the top of a 150-foot high cliff; a flat meadow butted against a
steep embankment. The long side of the house is situated along
this steep embankment creating a retaining