Contemporary California Houses

Buildings in their historical context

Contemporary California Houses is part of a series that aims to place buildings within their historical context. This text considers Gehry's Schnabel House, Israel's Lawson-Weston House, and Moss's Drager House. It includes specially produced technical drawings that explain how the buildings were detailed and put together.

Key buildings

It considers how the houses are all key buildings in the development of a recognized style of California residential architecture and how the buildings afforded their creator's the reputations as masters of spatial manipulation.
Lavishly illustrated in both photopraphy and line drawing, it will provide a indispensable resource for those in the profession or those studying for it.

Gehry's Schnabel House

"My approach to architecture is different. I search out the work of artists, and use art as a means of inspiration", Frank Gehry once said. Gehry's fascination with the palpable quality of common buildings materials and their unconventional applications is an integral part of his architectural language.