GCI Publications

Conserving Twentieth-Century Built Heritage, A Bibliography
Edited by Susan Macdonald and Gail Ostergren (PDF, 82pp., 1.1MB)
The bibliography is an extensive subject bibliography on the conservation of modern architectural materials. The GCI will revise this bibliographic resource periodically and seeks input from professionals in the field to expand its content.

Conserving Modern Architecture Brochure
This four-page brochure provides an overview of this comprehensive research and implementation program.
(PDF, 4pp., 3MB)

Videos

L.A. Voices: Perspectives on Conserving Modern Architecture

Ice Cube Celebrates the Eames

Charles and Ray Eames' living room makes an interim home at LACMA
The midcentury legends' untouched living room is relocated and reassembled, piece by piece, at LACMA. (Los Angeles Times article, includes time-lapse video)

PDF Links

Eames, Charles. 1949. Case Study House for 1949: Designed by Charles Eames. Arts and Architecture 66 (12): 26-39.

Entenza, John. 1945. Announcement: the case study house program. Arts and Architecture 62 (1): 37-41.

Historic Resources Group. 2006. National Historic Landmark Nomination: Eames House: National Park Service.

References

(Based on bibliography included in the NHL nomination and in Kirkham 1995)

Case Study House for 1949: the plan. 1949. Arts and Architecture 66 (5): 38-39.

Case Study House for 1949: the steel frame. 1949. Arts and Architecture 66 (3): 30-31.

Albrecht, Donald. 1997. The Work of Charles and Ray Eames: A Legacy of Invention. New York: Harry N. Abrams in association with the Library of Congress and the Vitra Design Museum.

Banham, Reyner. 2009. Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies. Berkeley, CA; London: University of California Press.

Demetrios, Eames. 2001. An Eames Primer. London: Thames & Hudson. Eames, Charles. 1949. Merit specified Case Study House 1949. Arts and Architecture 66 (12): 8-11.

Eames, Charles, Ray Eames, and Ralph Caplan. 1976. Connections, The Work of Charles and Ray Eames: Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, December 7, 1976-February 6, 1977. [Los Angeles]: UCLA Art Council.

Entenza, John, Barbara Goldstein, and Esther McCoy. 1990. Arts & Architecture: The Entenza Years. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.

Kirkham, Pat. 1995. Charles and Ray Eames: Designers of the Twentieth Century. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.

McCoy, Esther. 1977. Case Study Houses, 1945-1962. 2nd ed. Los Angeles: Hennessey & Ingalls.

Neuhart, John, Charles Eames, Ray Eames, and Marilyn Neuhart. 1989. Eames Design: The Work of the Office of Charles and Ray Eames. New York: H.N. Abrams.

Smith, Elizabeth A. T., and Esther McCoy. 1998. Blueprints for Modern Living: History and Legacy of the Case Study Houses. 1st MIT pbk. ed. Los Angeles, Cambridge, Mass.: Museum of Contemporary Art ; MIT Press.

Steele, James, Charles Eames, and Ray Eames. 1994. Eames House: Charles and Ray Eames. Architecture in detail. London: Phaidon.

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