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CASE STUDY HOUSE #17
7861 Woodrow Wilson Drive | Hollywood Hills, California
House and Landscape remodelling, including the interior
Rodney Walker was born in Ely, Nevada on September 15, 1910. He attended Pasadena City College before transferring to University of Californiawhere he graduated with a degree in art. In 1937, Rodney and his wife, Dorothea, built their first house in West Los Angeles. Soon after, he went to work for Rudolf Schindler as a draftsman. Over the next thirty years, Walker designed and built some 100 homes in Southern California. Rodney Walker died in 1986 at his home in Ojay, California.
The Case Study Houses were experiments in residential architecture sponsored by John Entenza's(later David Travers') Arts & Architecture magazine, which commissioned major architects of the day, including Richard Neutra, Raphael Soriano, Craig Ellwood, Charles and Ray Eames, Pierre Koenig and Eero Saarinen, to design and build inexpensive and efficient model homes for the United States residential housing boom caused by the end of World War IIand the return of millions of soldiers. The Eames' CSH #8 was assembled by hand labor in about three days.
The program ran from 1945 until 1966. The first six houses were built by 1948and attracted more than 350,000 visitors. While not all 36 designs were built, most of those that were constructed were built in Los Angeles; a few are in the San Francisco Bay Area, and one was built in Phoenix, Arizona. A number of them appear in iconic black and white photographs by architectural photographer Julius Shulman.
Sehorsch Architektur und Design is a Weil am Rhein based firm, established in 2001. We offer a comprehensive support revolving around the entire spectrum of product development process.
The extensive international experience of our team members makes us a competitive, competent and valuable partner. Our team consists of Designers, Architekten, Writers and Craftsmen. This scientific knowledge is used to aid and to optimize our product design process.
Our creativity and love of design together with the know-how of our team members enables us to successfully achieve the product – or building -requirements and targets of our customers for their respective markets.
We consult, freelance and think tank on private and commercial projects. The midnight design disease keeps us moving in all directions – but our focus on good design is constant.
Sehorsch Architektur und Design
Pflegler Strasse 22
79576 Weil am Rhein
Germany
Managing Director:
Peter Sehorsch
Contact Data:
Phone Cell: (1) 310 990 7006
Phone Office: (1) 323 952 3049
E-Mail: info@sehorsch.com
Internet: www.sehorsch.com