ivy du jour

Case Study House #22 1960 Black & white photograph (Getty Museum)

Pierre Koenig, architect

Julius Shulman, architectural photographer

[I am thinking, of course, of the heroic night-time view of Pierre Koenig's Case Study House #22 which seems so memorably to capture the whole spirit of late twentieth-century architecture. There, hovering almost weightlessly above the bright lights of Los Angeles, spread out like a carpet below, is an elegant, light, economical and transparent enclosure whose apparent simplicity belies the rigorous process of investigation that made it possible. If I had to choose one snapshot, one architectural moment, of which I would like to have been the author, this is surely it.]

Norman Foster

Inspired by discussion of our childhood dreams last night (Jeff & Ivy chats) - I dream of being an architect...