Context Experimentation
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y the time of the Case Study House program’s inception in 1945, Los Angeles had emerged as a vigorously experimental context for the residential architecture. Numerous modernist precedents existed in the starkly minimal work of Irving Gill, active in the early decades of the century in southern California, as well as in the bold experiments with materials and construction techniques of Franck Lloyd Wright in Los Angels beginning the late 1910’s.
Hugo Klauber House, Irving Gill (1908)
Sturges House, Franck Lloyd Wright (1939)
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