Life history of Pierre koening

Born= On October 17, 1925 in San Francisco Died =On April 4, 2004 Brentwood (Los Angeles) Even As A Boy Koening Displayed A Nascent Interest In Architecture And Modernism. In 1939 His Family Moved To San Gabriela Los Angeles Suburb And Here Among A Group Of New Friends Who Also Wanted To Be Architects, Koenigs Earlier Interest Crystallized. At The Age Of 17 He Was Enlisted In The United States Army Advanced Training

After effects ofProgram, on his architecture war Which Offer A Compressed 4-Year College Degree
In 2 Years. But Program Was Cancelled And He Was Sent To After The War, Koenig Returned To Los Angeles And Applied To The University Of Southern Front Lines As A Flash Ranger Observer, Spotting Enemy Fire California (USC), School Of Architecture. Due The Influx Of Returning GIs, There Was A Two-Year And Calculating There Position Positions. Waiting List For Admission, And Koenig Spent This Time Studying At Pasadena City College Until He Was Finally Admitted To USC In 1948. At This Time, USC Was The Leading Architectural School In California, And A HOTBED OF NEW IDEAS BROUGHT ABOUT BY THE AFTERMATH OF THE WAR: IDEAS ABOUT HOW ARCHITECTURE SHOULD RESPOND TO SOCIAL ISSUES, SUCH AS THE POPULATION BOOM IN LOS ANGELES AND THE NEED FOR LOW-COST HOUSING, AND IDEAS

Life as an architect
After Receiving His B.Arch. In 1952, Koenig Worked Both Independently And For A Number Of Other Architectural Practices.After Graduation, Koenig Would Design And Build Three More Steel Houses In Rapid Succession.Koenig Worked As A Draftsman For Raphael Soriano, Who Shared His Interest In Steel. He Also Did Presentation Renderings For Soriano's Unnumbered Case Study House. Koenig Subsequently Worked For Brief Periods for Candreva and Jarrett, Edward H. Fickett, Kistner, Wright And Wright And Finally In 1956 For Jones And Emmons. In 1957 He Was Licensed; He Received His First Invitation To Participate In An International Exhibition, The So Paulo Biennial; And Arts And Architecture Magazine Published His Designs For A "Low-Cost Production House". Most Importantly John Entenza Invited Him To Participate In Art And Architecture's Case Study House Program. KOENING HOUSE NO.1 During his college days When A USC Studio Instructor Rejected His Design For A Steel House, Questioning The Applicability Of Steel To Residential Architecture, Koenig Decided To Prove Him Wrong. His Response, Koenig House No. 1, Designed And Built By Koenig

After this early recognition, Koenig went on to have a long and prolific career as an architect, designing and building over forty-

Pierre Koenig achievements

Case Study House # 21 and Case Study House # 22 defined Koenig's style and brought him great attention. Their steel construction, open-planning, and emphasis on the unity of nature and architecture, these two steel houses exemplified the California aesthetic as being different from East Coast Modernism. Despite their conceptual similarities, the two houses were quite different from one another. Case Study House #21 was meant to be a prototype for affordable, mass-producible housing, an embodiment of Koenigs belief in architecture as a social study. On the other hand, Case Study House # 22, which quickly came to be seen as the perfect manifestation of modernity in Los Angeles and of life in post-war America in general, was a unique custom house, an exercise in overcoming the engineering issues of a near vertical site.The Bailey House or Case Study House #21 was registered as a Los Angeles The Site ForCSH #21 Is A Level Building Pad In The Hills Historic-Cultural Monument #669. With A Sweeping View To The South. The Basic Design Element Of The Plan Is An Island Core Of Division Between The Living Area And The Two Bedrooms. The House, Surrounded Completely By Pools, Introduces A New Concept In Making Water An Integral Structure And Landscape Element. Brick Terraces, Spanning The Pools, Lead To The Living Areas, And The Terraces Add Another Bailey House in Los Angeles, California, United States

Bailey house =case study house no 21.

Bailey house =case study house no 21.

Situated At 9036 Wonderland Park Avenue, Los Angeles, United States And Built In 1959. Has A Plot Size Of 110 By 160 Feet And Total Area Of HouseIs 1320 Square Feet. Comprise Of One Story; 4 Rooms= Living Room, Kitchen, 2 Bedrooms, 2 Baths Rooms. Material Used Is Steel Decking, Steel Frame. Plan of Bailey House The Rigidity Of The Steel Framing Provided Inordinate Lateral Stability In The East-West Direction And The Welding Of Channels To The Top And Base Of Each Column Provided Additional Strength In The North-South Direction For Sufficient Resistance To Seismic Forces And Wind Loads. These Elements Unify the Building Aesthetically and Structurally.

Koenig Made Use Of The Sandwiched Steel Decking Walls To Conceal Insulation, Wiring And Pipes. By Piercing The Roof

Front Elevation of Bailey House

Stahl house= case study house no 22.

The Difference Between This House And Case Study House No. 21 Is That The Architects Did Not Have To Be Concerned With Both The Potential Of Prefabrication And The Use Of Standardized Components. Thin Metal Panels Of 125 Mm, And 100 MmH-Section Pillars Are Used. The Stahl House Have The Steel Beams Close-Framed To Form Rectangles, Holding Large Overhangs The Deck And Giving TheAppearance Of Building A Situated At 1636 Woods Drive, Los Angeles, Bird On The Verge Of Flight On A Precipice. This California, United StatesAnd Built In 1960 Total Also Maintains The Metaphor Of The Eagle. Three Area Of House Is 2,200 Square Feet. The House Is Sides Of The Home Were Made Of Plate Glass, The Arranged In An L-Shaped, With A Wing In The Largest Available At The Time. That Made For Bedrooms And Common Areas, Extending Into Fabulous Views. Space, On The Other, With The Bathrooms In The Intersection.The Transparent Glass Walls Is View Of Stahl House