My latest book purchase was Case Study Houses: The Complete CSH Program 1945-1966 by Julius Shulman, Elizabeth A. T. Smith, and Peter Gossel. If you don't already own this book go buy it now. It's big, heavy, and full of quintessentially mid-century modern design. The Case Study House Program was launched in California in 1945 through Arts & Architecture Magazine. 36 homes were designed by various architects, the point being to have modern homes that could be inexpensively and easily constructed to fulfill the post-war housing boom. Some were built and some were not, here you will find all of them. Included are the original concept drawings, blueprints, and models along with stunning photography of the ones that did see the light of day. It's a great coffee table/conversational piece, with designs by Charles and Ray Eames, Eero Saarinen, and Richard Neutra among many others.
For more information on this book and a lot of other great architecture and design books check out the Taschen website.
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