Pierre Koenig: A View from the Archive, by Neil Jackson. Getty Publications, 304 pages, $55.
Just the mention of Midcentury Modern architecture easily conjures up Julius Shulman’s image of Pierre Koenig’s Case Study House 22, cantilevering over the Los Angeles landscape. But Koenig was so much more than just the creator of a pair of Case Study houses, as Neil Jackson’s new book reveals. Anyone who has drawn a steel detail should feel a debt to Pierre Koenig (1925–2004), whose refinement of technique and materials spanned a whole career. Thankfully, Jackson has included most of these details in a rich set of plates that fills the final third of the book.
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