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The program ran intermittently from 1945 until 1966. The first six houses were built by 1948 and attracted more than 350,000 visitors. While not all 36 designs were built, most of those that were constructed were built in
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to design and build inexpensive and efficient model homes for the United States residential housing boom caused by the end of
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A number of the houses appeared in the magazine in iconic black-and-white photographs by architectural photographer
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CSH #13 was unbuilt, but has been identified with Neutra's Gordon Wilkins House (1949) in Pasadena. See:
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Blueprints for Modern Living: History and Legacy of the Case Study Houses
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magazine, which commissioned major architects of the day, including
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Smith, Elizabeth and Peter Goessel (12 January 2002).
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Stahl House
residential architecture
Arts & Architecture
Richard Neutra
Raphael Soriano
Craig Ellwood
Charles and Ray Eames
Pierre Koenig
Eero Saarinen
A. Quincy Jones
Edward Killingsworth
Rodney Walker
Ralph Rapson
World War II
Los Angeles
San Rafael
Phoenix
Atherton
San Francisco Bay Area
Smoke Rise
Julius Shulman
J. R. Davidson
CSH#1
J. R. Davidson
Los Angeles
CSH#1
VGT
Sumner Spaulding
Pasadena

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