Record 081 · Showcase home · 1960
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Stahl House (Case Study House #22)
Pierre Koenig's Stahl House was built in 1960 for Buck and Carlotta Stahl as part of the Case Study House program, created in 1945 by Arts & Architecture editor John Entenza to shape postwar living through replicable building techniques using modern industrial materials. Its glass-and-steel structure on a precarious Hollywood Hills site uses dramatic roof overhangs and the largest commercially available glass of the time.
- Case Study House program prototype: replicable building techniques using modern industrial materials
- Glass-and-steel construction
- Largest pieces of commercially available glass at the time, with dramatic roof overhangs
- Steel-framed house cantilevered ten feet over the hillside on a lot others treated as unbuildable
- Concrete floors with radiant underfloor heating
- cantilever
- demo-home
Image
- Credit
- Ovs at English Wikipedia, via commons.wikimedia.org (Public domain)
- Licence
- Public domain
- Source
- commons.wikimedia.org
Dating
- “Construction of the house began in May 1959 and was completed a year later in May of 1960.” · stahlhouse.com
- “Built in 1960 as part of the Case Study House program” · laconservancy.org
