The American mid-century magazine lives again on the web
The archives of this iconic publication which created the Case Study House Program have been exhumed and have found new life on the web.
Pages straight from the original publication featuring the Case Study houses complete with text, images and drawings are presented in PDF format. All of the greats are there including Edward Killingsworth, Charles Eames, Eero Saarinen, Richard Neutra, Craig Ellwood, Pierre Koenig, William Wurster, etc. etc. etc.
David Travers, the second and last editor following John Entenza, is involved with the project and has written an interesting remembrance of the magazine and era. He also offers an admonishment to the contemporary architecture profession:
Architecture, which used to be serious but fun, is now serious but silly. Innovative straight line, geometrical, rational, less-is-more architecture has been replaced by novelty, by glib, zigzag, crumpled, broken, exploded and discontinuous designs, by "constructive alienation," by Bernard Tschumi. Gott in Himmelb(l)au. The avant garde in architecture has lost its way.Yeowsa!
Link: Arts & Architecture
Related: TASCHEN Books - Case Study Houses