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It's airborne. Shulman's image of the Stahl house is his best known picture and one of the defining images of early 60s L.A. Modernist cool. Glass walled and daringly cantilevered, it was one of the famous Case Study Houses, more than two dozen experiments in residential design commissioned by Arts & Architecture magazine between 1945 and 1966\. Richard Neutra, Eero Saarinen and Charles and Ray Eames were among the famous designers who took part. Architect: Pierre KoenigIt's angular. It's airborne. Shulman's image of the Stahl house is his best known picture and one of the defining images of early 60s L.A. Modernist cool. Glass walled and daringly cantilevered, it was one of the famous Case Study ### Residence, Los Angeles, 1952  Architect: William Alexander Go get 'em tiger. Fifties living at its va-va-va-voomiest. Instead of a conventional fireplace, there's a screened "firebowl" resting on an iron tripod and beneath a conical copper hood. Architect: William Alexander Go get 'em tiger. Fifties living at its va-va-va-voomiest. Instead of a conventional fireplace, there's a screened "firebowl" resting on an iron tripod and beneath a conical copper hood. ### Lever House, New York, NY, 1959  Architect: Gordon Bunshaft — Skidmore, Owings & MerrillCompleted in 1952, Lever House was the first glass and steel Modernist office building on what was then the all-masonry expanse of Park Avenue in midtown Manhattan. By 1959, when this picture was taken, it was a much photographed icon. So Shulman moved back to frame it in a new way under the plaza overhang of another Modernist milestone that had joined it just a year earlier on Park — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's Seagram Building. Architect: Gordon Bunshaft — Skidmore, Owings & MerrillCompleted in 1952, Lever House was the first glass and steel Modernist office building on what was then the all-masonry expanse of Park Avenue in midtown Manhattan. By 1959, when this picture was tak ### Greene Residence, Norman, Oklahoma, 1961  Architect: Herb GreeneCalled the "Prairie Chicken" house by Life magazine, Greene built this very ahead-of-its-time home for himself, his wife and two young children. Influenced by the organic architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright and the highly original Bruce Goff, it seems to look forward to the undulating forms of Frank Gehry. Architect: Herb GreeneCalled the "Prairie Chicken" house by Life magazine, Greene built this very ahead-of-its-time home for himself, his wife and two young children. Influenced by the organic architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright and the highly original Br ### Cunningham Residence, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 1964  Architect: Herb GreeneGreene combined brick and wood into a mix of hard-edged and curving geometries. He described the upward sloping roof as "an attempt to evoke a certain kind of aspiration." Architect: Herb GreeneGreene combined brick and wood into a mix of hard-edged and curving geometries. He described the upward sloping roof as "an attempt to evoke a certain kind of aspiration." ### Greenberg Residence, Palos Verdes, Califonia, 1966  Architect: Buff & HensmanShulman loved the drama and romance of California houses as coastal aeries, commanding the high ground over the lights of a sprawling town while lit themselves against the night sky. Architect: Buff & HensmanShulman loved the drama and romance of California houses as coastal aeries, commanding the high ground over the lights of a sprawling town while lit themselves against the night sky. ### Spring Hotel, Bequia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, 1967  Architect: Crites & McConnellA small hotel in the Caribbean gave Shulman a chance to play with contrasts of wood and stone, planes and diagonals, interior and exterior. Architect: Crites & McConnellA small hotel in the Caribbean gave Shulman a chance to play with contrasts of wood and stone, planes and diagonals, interior and exterior. ### Roberts Residence, Malibu, California, 1953  Architect: Weston, Byles & RudolphShulman's first wife Emma and daughter Judy were recruited to provide human scale in this scene of a Modernist beach house on what was then the sparsely populated coast around Malibu. The house was later destroyed by a flood. Architect: Weston, Byles & RudolphShulman's first wife Emma and daughter Judy were recruited to provide human scale in this scene of a Modernist beach house on what was then the sparsely populated coast around Malibu. The house was later destroyed by a f ### Frey Residence, Palm Springs, California  Architect: Albert Frey A Swiss architect who once worked with Le Corbusier, Frey brought a relaxed version of Corbusian Modernism to Palm Springs, especially in the boom years that followed World War II. For this, the first of two houses he built there for himself, he suspended the surface of the dining table, at right, from cables attached to the ceiling. Architect: Albert Frey A Swiss architect who once worked with Le Corbusier, Frey brought a relaxed version of Corbusian Modernism to Palm Springs, especially in the boom years that followed World War II. For this, the first of two houses he built there f ### Woods Residence, Cave Creek, Arizona, 1950  Architect: Soleri & MillsIn the 1940s Paolo Soleri and Mark Mills were apprentices of Frank Lloyd Wright, and the first house they did after leaving Wright's Taliesen West incorporated the master's use of natural stone. With a domed bedroom ceiling on tracks that allowed the whole structure to open and close, the house was also an early example of passive heating and cooling. Architect: Soleri & MillsIn the 1940s Paolo Soleri and Mark Mills were apprentices of Frank Lloyd Wright, and the first house they did after leaving Wright's Taliesen West incorporated the master's use of natural stone. With a domed bedroom ceiling on tr ### Woods Residence  An exterior shot of the domed bedroom. Soleri would later become famous as the driving force behind Arcosanti, his planned community for 5000 people north of Phoenix that's based on principles of environmental building and town planning — what we now call green architecture. An exterior shot of the domed bedroom. 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