Limited to 5,000 numbered copies, this collection is a comprehensive record of midcentury American architecture. TASCHEN presents its facsimile edition of John Entenza's groundbreaking magazine Arts & Architecture (1945-1954), which launched the Case Study House Program.

The reprint covers only a relatively short number of the years that this publication was issued. Travers' retrospective makes clear that the journal had its start in 1929 when Pacific Coast Architect (est. 1911) and California Southland (est. 1918) merged to form California Arts & architecture. The publication continued under that title until Sept. 1943, when the word California began to appear only intermittently in the masthead, until it was finally dropped for good in Feb. 1944. This manifestation of the journal was issued monthly from v. 61, no. 1 (Jan. 1944) through v. 84, no. 7/8 (July/Aug. 1967). According to Travers, John Entenza, the publisher during most of this period (1943-1962), changed the nature of the journal from that of a "review of 'nostalgic historicism' ... to an avant-garde magazine publishing low-cost houses rich with social concern". One of the prominent features of this publication was the "Case study house program", an idea that was first announced in the Jan. 1945 issue, which begins this set.

Ambitious and engaged, Arts & Architecture magazine celebrated change and innovation across politics, society and especially culture. This selection brings together the magazine's highlights from 1950 to 1954, with a special focus on mid-century American architecture and its pioneers including Richard Neutra, Eero Saarinen, and Charles & Ray Eames.

The reprint covers only a relatively short number of the years that this publication was issued. Travers' retrospective makes clear that the journal had its start in 1929 when Pacific Coast Architect (est. 1911) and California Southland (est. 1918) merged to form California Arts & architecture. The publication continued under that title until Sept. 1943, when the word California began to appear only intermittently in the masthead, until it was finally dropped for good in Feb. 1944. This manifestation of the journal was issued monthly from v. 61, no. 1 (Jan. 1944) through v. 84, no. 7/8 (July/Aug. 1967). According to Travers, John Entenza, the publisher during most of this period (1943-1962), changed the nature of the journal from that of a "review of 'nostalgic historicism' ... to an avant-garde magazine publishing low-cost houses rich with social concern". One of the prominent features of this publication was the "Case study house program", an idea that was first announced in the Jan. 1945 issue, which begins this set.