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The Case Study Houses
Rating: 3.9 out of 5(9 ratings)
50 students

The Case Study Houses

Modern Architecture
Created byFederico von Borstel
Last updated 6/2025
English
English [Auto],

What you'll learn

  • This is a course about the Case Study Houses a unique and important project in the development of Modern Architecture.
  • The course promotes self-learning.
  • The course enhances human development.
  • The course seeks to enrich your life experience.

Course content

1 section • 13 lectures • 1h 18m total length

  • Introduction1:40

    Explore the case study houses, a foundational modern architecture program, with a table of contents and tours of Greenbelt and Eames Houses, plus numbered cases including Kauffman House.

  • Case Study Houses Lecture 25:50

    Explore the case study houses program, a postwar design-build project sponsored by arts and architecture magazine in Los Angeles, showcasing modernist homes that defined West Coast housing.

  • Case Study Houses Lecture 32:54

    Trace the precedents of the case study houses, from the Perry School and Arts and Crafts influence to Wright’s masonry craftsmanship, Barcelona Pavilion, and Farnsworth House.

  • Case Study Houses Lecture 47:08

    Explore Rudolf Schindler’s case study houses in La Jolla: a 12-unit, 864-square-foot duplex complex from 1923 with indoor-outdoor living, patios, outdoor showers, and a light, craftsman-influenced horseshoe layout.

  • Case Study Houses Lecture 511:53

    Explore case study house number one in Toluca Lake, a 1948 wooden, slab-on-grade home by J.R. Davidson. It features a breezeway, large floor-to-ceiling glass, and strong indoor-outdoor integration.

  • Case Study Houses Lecture 66:13

    Explore Ralph Rapson's case study house number four, the greenbelt, featuring a central courtyard, private/public zones, and Mondrian-inspired glass while emphasizing economical, adaptable prefabricated construction.

  • Case Study Houses Lecture 77:40

    Explore case study house eight, the eames house, a mid century modern landmark with an extruded rectangle form, Mondrian-influenced facade, diagonal bracing, and double height living spaces.

  • Case Study Houses Lecture 88:16

    Case study house number nine, by Eames and Saarinen, uses modular steel with four inch h columns and open web joists, delivering open-plan living with indoor-outdoor flow and two-bedroom two-bath.

  • Case Study Houses Lecture 94:30

    Explore case study house no. 20, the Stuart Bailey House by Richard Neutra, a California prototype that borrows outdoor space and uses a prefabricated utility core to cut costs.

  • Case Study Houses Lecture 105:17

    Case study house No. 22 sits on a hillside above Los Angeles, featuring erosion concerns, a cantilevered living-dining room with floor-to-ceiling windows, and iconic photo by Julius Shulman.

  • Case Study Houses Lecture 115:14

    Explore the Kaufman House in Palm Springs (1947) by Richard Neutra, celebrated for its pinwheel plan, desert modernism, and iconic photography by Julius Shulman, embodying the modern movement.

  • Case Study Houses Lecture 12 List of CHS2:05

    Explore the list of CHS as presented in lecture 12 of the Case Study Houses course.

  • Course Catalog9:46

    Review the course catalog for the case study houses. Experience a playful, repetitive sequence of phrases like birdie and it's over.

Requirements

  • The only requirement for this course is an interest in Architecture and Modern Architecture in particular.

Description

This is a course on the Case Study Houses program. The man responsible for initiating the project was John Entenza, Editor of the magazine Arts and Architecture. The result was a series of minimalist homes that employed steel frames and open plans to reflect the more casual and independent way of life that had arisen in the automotive age. Here we will study and analyze some of the most iconic and influential of those Case Study houses. I teach lecture courses and studios as I wish they would have been taught to me. Much of the graphic material in my lectures is taken or generated first hand directly by me on site. I teach to learn. I teach subjects as I wish they were taught to me. The Mission Statement. Education is a tool for the improvement of successive generations. I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. Confucius

This course is designed under the premise that humans should be taught in a way that is modeled after the educational patterns of evolution.

The design, development and application of educational systems based on the educational principles of evolution generates a philosophy and methodology of education in synchrony with the evolutionary education system that is firmly and deeply rooted in each of us.

Education for evolution is an educational system designed to help propel humans forward in the natural course of evolution. The purpose of education for evolution is to enhance and strengthen the natural evolutionary process of humans through the mechanism of education. The means to achieve this objective is the design of a curricula based on the same educational techniques and strategies used by natural evolution, enhanced and guided by the application of conscious educational decisions.

Who this course is for:

  • This is course designed for anyone with an interest in Architecture and Modern Architecture in particular.

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