COLLECTION NAME:
Archivision Base to Module 9
Record
Preferred Title:
Case Study House no. 8
Alternate Title:
Charles and Ray Eames House
Image View:
Studio, lower portion of east façade, from east
Creator:
Charles Eames (American architect, 1907-1978); Ray Eames (American architect, 1916-1988)
Location:
site: Pacific Palisades (Los Angeles, California, United States)
Location Note:
203 Chautauqua Boulevard
Date:
1945-1949 (creation)
Cultural Context:
American
Style Period:
International Style (modern European architecture style); Twentieth century
Work Type 1:
house
Classification:
architecture
Material:
glass; wood; plaster; steel; pre-fabricated panels and windows
Technique:
construction (assembling)
Subjects:
architectural exteriors; dwelling
Description:
In 1945 they collaborated with Eero Saarinen and Edgardo Contini on two projected case study houses (nos 8 and 9) for the magazine Arts and Architecture. Case Study House no. 9, which was intended for John Entenza, the editor and publisher of the magazine, was a single-level dwelling of steel and stucco and was built (1947-1949), essentially as proposed in its first design, at 205 Chautauqua Boulevard, Pacific Palisades, CA. Case Study House no. 8, which was to be the Eames's house, was originally conceived as two steel-framed boxes raised above the site on steel legs. The design was substantially changed, however, and the house was built at ground-level, with two-storey living and studio sections separated by an open atrium . It is a typical Eames product, light in appearance and suggesting a tie to the historical (Japanese architecture) and to the modern. The new siting of the house at 203 Chautauqua Boulevard, Pacific Palisades, set it into the hillside, and through its glass walls the interior could becom
Collection:
Archivision Addition Module Three
Identifier:
1A1-EC-EH-B4
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
Case Study House no. 8
