April 23, 2018, 11:24 am
By Elijah Chiland
One of Los Angeles’s few remaining Case Study houses is looking for a new owner.
Designed by Rodney Walker, Case Study House No. 18 (aka West House), was built in 1948 as part of the Case Study program, sponsored by Arts & Architecture. The influential series transformed modern architecture and helped make Los Angeles into an important center of postwar homebuilding and midcentury design style.
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Tags: architecture, art, Case Study House No. 18, Case Study houses, Curbed, Curbed LA, deasy penner podley, design, Midcentury Modern, pacific palisades, Press, Rodney Walker, West House
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