Craig Ellwood’s Case Study House 16

When World War II ended and the American troops were returning home, it was the start of the baby boom and a monumental housing shortage. The magazine Arts & Architecture asked some of the country’s best architects to design simple, affordable homes that could be built en masse. Their Case Study Houses were numbered 1 through 28, and they were built from 1945 sporadically through 1966. Thirteen were never built, and at least three of the ones that were built were later demolished. A couple of them have been renovated rather than restored, and the rest are lived in and cared for today.

Case Study House 16 was the first of three Case Study Houses designed by Craig Ellwood. Completed in 1953 in Bel Air, the house was innovative in its use of exposed steel-structural framing and floor-to-ceiling glass walls to optimize the views and open to the grounds, making it feel twice the size. It is for sale at $5.4 million.

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