Pierre Koenig was architect of the Case Study Houses No. 21 and 22. The Case Study Houses were experiments in residental architecture sponsored by Arts & Architecture magazine, which commissioned major architects of the day, including Richard Neutra, Charles and Ray Eames and Eero Saarinen, to design and build inexpensive and efficient model homes for the residential housing boom caused by the end of...
Koenig said it was unnecessary, but that he would install ducts, though not the machines, for one year, during which he asked the client to depend on the natural ventilation he had built in to the project.
Koenig's own home in Brentwood, where he died, and the successor to the one he built in 1950 while still a student, had no heating or cooling.
Koenig was born in San Francisco, the son of a salesman, and, as a boy, became fascinated by the steel cranes along the docks.
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