In this class we look at Frank Lloyd Wright's vacation home for Edgar Kaufmann in Bear Run, Pennsylvania, and Mies van der Rohe's vacation home for Dr. Edith Farnsworth in Plano, IL.

1. Class 16
More Modern Houses

2. agenda 3.30.15
Frank Lloyd Wright, Fallingwater, 1936
Mies van der Rohe, Farnsworth House, Plano, IL, 1951
Case Study houses, 1945-1966
#22 Pierre Koenig, Stahl House
a word about Julius Shulman
Joseph Eichler
John Lautner, Chemosphere (Malin House)

3. "Fallingwater" (1936-9)
designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for Edgar J. Kaufmann
on site of "summer camp" owned by department store and
used as a retreat for employees

11. Fallingwater

123. Farnsworth House

124. south elevation

126. north elevation

208. Case Study Houses
January 1945 Arts & Architecture Magazine announced a
new program called the "Case Study Houses."
Each house that qualified "must be capable of duplication
and in no sense be an individual 'performance'... It is
important that the best material available be used in the
best possible way in order to arrive at a ‘good’ solution of
each problem, which in the overall program will be general
enough to be of practical assistance to the average
American in search of a home in which he can afford to
live.”

209. the domestic frontier
“...We of course assume that the shape and form of post war
living is of primary importance to a great many Americans,
and that...the house[s]... will be conceived within the spirit of
our times, using as far as is practicable, many war-born
techniques and materials best suited to the expression of
man’s life in the modern world.”

210. name architects like Richard Neutra and Eero Saarinen
were invited to participate, but others could apply to be
part of the program

212. No. 22 The Stahl House
Pierre Koenig, architect, designed house No. 21 as well
famous photos by Julius Shulman taken in 1960
built for Buck Stahl, who had acquired the land in 1954
very difficult site with spectacular view

218. John LAUTNER
"Chemosphere"
1960

219. When Lautner was given the site in 1960, there were two common methods for
building houses on the difficult sloped land. The ground could be cut to create a
level platform or the house could be supported on an open steel framework. The
client, however, had a small budget (only $30,000) so Lautner instead took
advantage of the client’s extensive imagination and rejected both structural
methods for one that would cost about half of the conventional solution with
retaining walls and land drains. Lautner perched the entire one-story octagon on
a single 30-foot concrete column, leaving the natural surroundings untouched.

223. Joseph EICHLER (1900-
1974)
lived in a FLW home, Bazett House (1939)
briefly rented from Mr. Bazett, who wouldn't sell it to him. Is
now owned by the couple who evicted him.
hired architects to design plans

224. Bazett House
Hillsborough, CA, 1939

230. EICHLER STYLE
suburban ranches that emphasized casual indoor-outdoor
living
garages often faced the street, while living areas opened
toward the rear; later examples included an open-air
atrium at the center.
Flat or shallow-pitched roofs, exposed beams, and
expanses of plate glass.
Running materials both inside and out (like the brick for a
fireplace) to reinforce the idea that house and site were
extensions of each other.

233. John Pawson, House, 2002-2009, Los Angeles

234. John Pawson
Born in 1949 in Yorkshire, England.
Working in family textile business
Went to Japan where he spent several years teaching
English in Nagoya.
Moved to Tokyo, where he visited the studio of Japanese
architect and designer Shiro Kuramata.
After returning to England, he enrolled at the Architecture
Association in London, leaving to establish his own
practice in 1981.
— themes he also explored in

235. modernist credo
"From the outset the work has
focused on ways of approaching
fundamental problems of space,
proportion, light and materials, rather
than on developing a set of stylistic
mannerisms."

236. Pawson, Tilty Hill Barn, 1995