Prototropic 0.1: Honolulu and Rio

“…Perhaps we will
cling the longest to
the symbol of house
as we have know it, or
perhaps we will realize
that in accommodating
ourselves to a new world
the most important step
in avoiding retrogression
into the old”
After nearly 65 years later, legacy of the Case
Study House has become a mere fable; a history
lesson told to the younger generation of architects
of how good the Woodstock really was and that
there will never be another one like it. However
unprecedented and idealized the CSH appears
to be today, the original program, the vision and
execution was rather practical. 1
The program outlined a set of rules for handful of
select architects (friend and contemporaries of the
editor John Entenza) to produce series of houses to
be built in southern California for select >
1. The program espoused the “measurement of the average man’s living
standards”, hence, practicality was one of the main requisite for all designs