michael's dream house
12:09 a.m.
here's what i contributed to "self portrait day: favorite architectural works" over at cooper's blog...
its the nov. 3rd. entry, go have a look, there's tons of incredible stuff there.
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Case Study House 22
1635 Woods Drive - Above Sunset/Laurel Canyon
Los Angeles, CA
2300 square feet
completed 1960
architect: pierre koenig
"An extraordinary view over a hundred square miles of the city of Los Angeles greets visitors to Pierre Koenig's 1959 Case Study #22 as they enter the courtyard from the carport and walled off street side of the structure. The house, boasted Arts and Architecture is a 'free floating roof shelter oriented to an expansive and spectacular panorama.' In fact Julius Shulman's photograph of the glass living area of this dramatically spare house silhouetted against the nocturnal cityscape - may be the single best known image of the Case Study Program."
- Blueprints for Modern Living : History and Legacy of the Case Study Houses edited by Elizabeth A. T. Smith.
"I am thinking, of course, of the heroic night-time view of Pierre Koenig's Case Study House #22 which seems so memorably to capture the whole spirit of late twentieth-century architecture. There, hovering almost weightlessly above the bright lights of Los Angeles, spread out like a carpet below, is an elegant, light, economical and transparent enclosure whose apparent simplicity belies the rigorous process of investigation that made it possible. If I had to choose one snapshot, one architectural moment, of which I would like to have been the author, this is surely it."
- Norman Foster, in the foreword of Pierre Koenig, by James Steele, David Jenkins.
"The pressure is so great that the architect is a captive. He functions best as a free agent."
-Pierre Koenig.
explore:
case study houses page
pierre koenig image archive
koenig tribute page at jet set modern
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in other news, doogie howser loves the cock!
ok, back after the weekend.
love ya's,
MK