CONTEMPORARY CALIFORNIA HOUSES. Frank Gehry: Schnabel House. Eric Owen Moss: Lawson-Westen House. Franklin D. Israel: Drager House.

Author: Steele, James
Country: London
Language: English
Year Published: 1999
No. of pages: 184
Illustrations: 35 Color Illustrations. 243 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Hardbound with Cloth Spine
Size: 12”sq
Weight: 4.00
ISBN: 9780714838717
Biblio/Bio: Bibl.
Code: 5496

Price: $39.50

These houses have become almost an architectual cliché - houses intended as personal statements of the owner or architect, inextricably linked with the concept of “modern” and noted for their unrestrained imagination. The fact that California is the home of the movie industry further exaggerates the prominence of the California house, making it even more emblematic and larger than life. The three houses - Frank Gehry’s Schnabel House, Eric Owen Moss’s Lawson-Westen House, and Franklin D. Israel design for Sharon Drager - are somehow all beyond imagination and yet quite real, stretching the definition of a house, and yet lived in by real people. Plans and elevations included.