Houses that Architects Have Designed for Themselves

Here's one for all your architectural buffs and list lovers: over at Lotta Livin', a site dedicated to "Googie, Atomic Age and Mid Century Modern Living", website host moderns-r-us began a thread dedicated to readers' favourite homes designed by the architect for the architect. Plenty of LA residences represented, including:

4) R. M. Schindler - studio and residence - W. Hollywood CA - 1922
5) Edward Killingsworth - Personal Residence - Long Beach, CA
7) Ray Kappe - Kappe Residence - Pacific Palisades, CA - 1968
10) A. Quincy Jones - Jones Residence 2 or Steel House 2 - Brentwood CA

A few more under the cut...

12) Rodney Walker - Walker Residence - Los Angeles,CA - 1951
13) Charles and Ray Eames - Eames House, Case Study House #8 - 1949
14) Robert W. Stevens - Stevens Home - Fresno, CA - 1957
16) Albert Frey - Frey House II - Palm Springs, CA - 1964
17) Richard Neutra - Studio and Residence
22) Thorton Ladd - Ladd Residence - Pasadena, California - 1949

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I love that boulder house. However, I'm sure I'm going to have nightmares just thinking about what it must have been like getting permits from the local municipality for that one! We took out a wall and they just about crucified us!

posted by SFGail on January 4th 2008 at 10:34am
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