The Case Study Houses were experiments in American residential
architecture sponsored by Arts & Architecture magazine, which commissioned
major architects of the day, including Richard Neutra, Raphael Soriano, Craig
Ellwood, Charles and Ray Eames, Pierre Koenig, Eero Saarinen, A. Quincy Jones,
Edward Killingsworth, and Ralph Rapson to design and build inexpensive and
efficient model homes for the United States residential housing boom caused by
the end of World War II and the return of millions of soldiers.
The program ran intermittently from 1945 until 1966. The first six houses were
built by 1948 and attracted more than 350,000 visitors.