Stahl House
The Steel House (also Case Study House No. 22), named after the owner, is a modern building in the Hollywood Hills in Los Angeles.
Pierre Koenig designed the house for the former American football player CH " Buck " Stahl 1959. The client, of the land acquired in 1954, had worked before the encounter with King of models for his house, which provided extensive glazing. The house took as built in the previous year Bailey House (No. 21) on the Case Study Houses program of the magazine Arts & Architecture for experimental residential house architecture in part, the June 1960 edition presented the building to the public. Started in 1959 the construction work had after Buck steel prepared the grounds with terraces over several years for construction. After nine months of construction was completed in June 1960. Koenig tried to show the house that industrial materials such as steel are suitable for housing.
Through numerous magazine and newspaper articles as well as reports in trade magazines and books, the building gained a worldwide reputation and is regarded as an icon of modern architecture in California. In addition ensured photographs by Julius Shulman for further attention. Also, as a production of film and photography served the steel house. The building, which is privately owned by the owners family, has been awarded several times and included in lists of important architecture ( " America's Favorite Architecture" - AIA 2007 "The best houses of all time in LA " - Los Angeles Times 2008).
The L-shaped building is built on a hillside, which was previously considered unbebaubar. The southern wing of the building is fully glazed from floor to steel roof and thus offers from all rooms views of the city. The original simple glazing broke easily and was later replaced with shatterproof glass. The running around the living room balcony without railings is also a later change the design.
Media
The Steel House was in several films and television series filming location, including:
- Columbo episode " Prescription: Murder" (1968 )
- Why Do Fools Fall in Love - The Roots of Rock ' n' Roll ( 1998)
- Life and love in L.A. (1998)
- Galaxy Quest - Planetshakers through space (1999)
- Where the Truth Lies (2005)
- Night Stalker (2005)
- Blow ( 2001)
- Catch Me If You Can ( 2002)
The future of the building and its eventual destruction after a fictitious disappearance of humanity (, USA " danger of collapse " 2010) shown in episode 5 of the second season of the docu-fiction series Life After People.