Charles and Ray Eames: A Selective Bibliography Compiled by Aileen Smith, June 2015 This bibliography consists of a selective list of books and articles relating to Charles and Ray Eames (www.eamesoffice.com) Those books held within the AA Library are indicated with a shelfmark. Books (Alphabetically by title) Blueprints for modern living: history and legacy of the Case Study Houses / Elizabeth A T Smith; essays by Esther McCoy et al Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press, 1989 ISBN 9780262692137 AA SHELFMARK: 728.3.036(794) MUS Bright minds, beautiful ideas: parallel thoughts in different times : Bruno Munari, Charles and Ray Eames, Marti Guixe and Jurgen Bey / edited by Ed Annink and Ineke Schwartz Amsterdam : BIS, 2003 ISBN 9789063690625 AA SHELFMARK: 7.011 ANN Case Study Houses: the complete CSH programme 1945-1966 / Elizabeth A T Smith Koln: Taschen, 2001 ISBN 3822864129 AA SHELFMARK: 728.3.036(794) SMI (MLC) Case Study Houses 1945-1962 / Esther McCoy Ingalls, 1977 ISBN 0912158719 AA SHELFMARK: 728.3.036(794) MCC Los Angeles: Hennessey and Case Study Houses 1945-1966: the California impetus / Elizabeth A T Smith Koln: Taschen, 2007 ISBN 9783822846179 AA SHELFMARK: 728.3.036(794) SMI Changing the art of inhabitation: Mies pieces, Eames dreams, the Smithsons / Alison and Peter Smithson London : Artemis, 1994 ISBN 9781874056379 AA SHELFMARK: 728.01.036 SMI Charles and Ray Eames: designers of the twentieth century / Pat Kirkham Cambridge, Mass.; London: MIT Press, 1995 ISBN 0262111993 AA SHELFMARK: 7.011.036(73):92EAM KIR Charles and Ray Eames, 1907-1978, 1912-1988: pioneers of mid-century modernism / Gloria Koenig Koln: Taschen, 2005 ISBN 9783822836514 AA SHELFMARK: 749.036(73):92EAM KOE
Computer perspective: background to the computer age / the Office of Charles and Ray Eames; introduction I Bernard Cohen; epilogue Brian Randell Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press, 1971 ISBN 0674156269 AA SHELFMARK: 518.5 EAM Connections: the work of Charles and Ray Eames / catalogue of an exhibition held at the Frederick S Wright Art Gallery Los Angeles, UCLA Art Council, 1976 AA SHELFMARK: 749.036(73):92E EAM Domesticity at war / Beatriz Colomina Barcelona: Actar, 2006 ISBN 9788496540118 (includes Eames House) AA SHELFMARK: 728.3.036:3 COL Eames anthology: articles, film scripts, interviews, letters, notes and speeches / Charles Eames, Ray Eames; edited by Daniel Ostroff New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015 ISBN 9780300203455 AA SHELFMARK: 72.01.036(73):92EAM EAM Eames: beautiful details / Charles and Ray Eames Ammo Books, 2014 ISBN 9781623260316 AA SHELFMARK: PROCESSING Eames design: the work of the office of Charles and Ray Eames / John Neuhart, Marilyn Neuhart, Ray Eames London: Thames and Hudson, 1989 ISBN 0500235643 AA SHELFMARK: 749.036(73):92EAM NEU Eames House: Charles and Ray Eames London: Phaidon, 1994 ISBN 071483002X (Architecture in Detail) AA SHELFMARK: 69.02:728.3.036(794):92EAM STE Eames lounge chair: an icon of modern design / Martin Eidelberg Grand Rapids Art Museum in association with Merrell, 2006 ISBN 1858943027 AA SHELFMARK: 749.036(73):92EAM EID London: Eames primer / Eames Demetrios London: Thames and Hudson, 2001 ISBN 0500283206 AA SHELFMARK: 749.036(73):92EAM DEM Experiments with life itself: radical domestic architectures between 1937 and 1959 / Francisco Gonzalez de Canales Barcelona: Actar, 2012 ISBN 9788492861651 AA SHELFMARK: 728.3.036 GON
Films of Charles and Ray Eames / Eric Schuldenfrei London: Routledge, 2014 ISBN 9780415724401 AA SHELFMARK: 791.229.2:92EAM SCH Key houses of the twentieth century : plans, sections and elevations / Colin Davies London: Laurence King, 2006 ISBN 9781856694636 (includes Eames House, by Charles and Ray Eames) AA SHELFMARK: 728.3.036 DAV Makers of modern architecture, volume 1 / Martin Filler Review of Books, 2007 ISBN 9781590172278 AA SHELFMARK: 72.036 FUL New York : New York Mid-century modern complete / Dominic Bradbury, Richard Powers (includes Charles and Ray Eames) London: Thames and Hudson, 2014 ISBN 9780500517277 AA SHELFMARK: 7.05.036 BRA Modern architecture through case studies 1945-1990 / Peter Blundell Jones and Eamonn Canniffe Oxford: Architectural Press, 2007 ISBN 9780750663748 (includes Eames House, Pacific Palisades) AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(4)(73) BLU Modernism reborn: mid-century American houses / Michael Webb Universe, 2001 ISBN 0789305356 AA SHELFMARK: 728.1.036(73) WEB New York: Plans sections and elevations: key buildings of the twentieth century / Richard Weston London: Laurence King, 2004 ISBN 1856693821 (includes work by Charles and Ray Eames) AA SHELFMARK: 72.036:744 WES Powers of ten: a book about the relative size of things in the universe and the effect of adding another zero / Philip and Phylis Morrison; and the Office of Charles and Ray Eames New York: Scientific American, 1994 ISBN 9780716760085 AA SHELFMARK: 523.1 MOR Presence of the Case Study Houses / Ethel Buisson and Thomas Billard Birkhauser, 2004 ISBN 3764371188 AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(794) BUI Basel: Story of Eames furniture (2 volumes) / Marilyn Neuhart, with John Neuhart Berlin: Gestalten, 2010 ISBN 9783899552300 AA SHELFMARK: 749.036(73):92EAM NEU
Twentieth century American house: masterworks of residential architecture / edited by Kenneth Frampton and David Larkin; text by Kenneth Frampton London: Thames and Hudson, 1995 ISBN 0500341435 AA SHELFMARK: 728.3.036(73) FRA Work of Charles and Ray Eames: a legacy of invention / essays by Donald Albrecht New York: Harry N Abrams in association with the Library of Congress and the Vitra Design Museum, 1997 ISBN 0810992329 AA SHELFMARK: 749.036(73):92EAM ALB World of Charles and Ray Eames / Catherine Ince Hudson, November 2015 ISBN 9780500518304 AA SHELFMARK: ON ORDER London: Thames and Journal Articles (Chronologically by year and month) Please check the AA Collections Catalogue for AA library holdings details. 2015 Charles and Ray Eames / article by Catherine Slessor in Architectural Review vol.237 no.1415 January 2015 / p.112-113 2013 Icon of the month: Powers of Ten / article by Mark Dorrian In Icon no.120 June 2013 / p.42-43 The World Solar Energy Project, ca1954; Designers: Eames & Associates / article by Daniel A Barber in Grey Room no.51 Spring 2013 / p.64-93 Review of Eames Words Eames Design : the Guest Host Relationship exhibition at A+D Architecture and Design Museum, October 1, 2011 January 16, 2012 / article by Andrea Thabet in Journal of Design History vol.26 no.2 2013 / p.199-214 2012 Observations on connections / article by Danielle Rago (reconstruction of Charles and Ray Eames living room from their late 1940s Case Study House in Pacific Palisades, for an exhibition at LACMA) in Log no.24 Winter/Spring 2012 / p.42
Charles and Ray Eames: modern living in a postwar era / article by Kyle Normandin in Docomomo Journal no.46 Summer 2012 / p.48-53 Eames: the architect and the painter (brief note about a film on Charles and Ray Eames, directed by Jason Cohn and Bill Jersey) in Building Design no.205 August 10, 2012 / p.17 Moving house / article by Corinne Julius (the living room of Charles and Ray Eames from their late 1940s Case Study House in Pacific Palisades has been reconstructed exactly as the original for an exhibition at the LACMA) in Blueprint no.310 January 2012 / p.36-42 2008 Eames House & Studio, Santa Monica, California, 1949 (Charles and Ray Eames) in GA Houses no.101 January 2008 / p.34-43 (text in Japanese+English) 2007 Exhibition on the furniture of Charles and Ray Eames at the Vitra Fire Museum, Weil am Rhein / article by Hubertus Adam in Archithese vol.37 no.3 May/June 2007 / p.94-95 (text in German) 2006 The lounge chair of Charles and Ray Eames celebrates its 50 th birthday / article by David Leclerc in D Architectures no.157 August/September 2006 / p.38-39 (text in French) 2005 Living images: Charles and Ray Eames at home / article by Rachel Stevenson in Perspecta no.37 2005 / p.32-41 Inside the office of Charles and Ray Eames / article by Max Underwood in Ptah no.2 2005 / p.46-63
2004 The New World, piece by piece / article by Francesco Ranocchi (on the work of Charles and Ray Eames) in Architettura Cronache e Storia vol.50 no.581 March 2004 / p.252-253 (text in Italian+English) 2003 The seductive modernism of the Eames / article by Valerio Paolo Mosco in Industria delle Costruzioni vol.37 no.369 January/February 2003 / p.82-85 (text in Italian) 2001 Enclosed by images: the Eames multimedia architecture / article by Beatriz Colomina in Grey Room no.2 Winter 2001 / p.5-29 Information obsession: the Eames multiscreen architecture / article by Beatriz Colomina in Journal of Architecture vol.6 no.3 Autumn 2001 / p.205-223 Eames House and Studio, Santa Monica, California, USA, 1949 (Charles and Ray Eames) / edited and photographed by Yukio Futagawa in GA Houses special 01 June 2001 / p.38-43 (text in Japanese+English) 2000 Charles and Ray Eames: pioneers in design / article by Lori Rotenberk in Inland Architect vol.117 no.1 2000 / p.34-36 1999 Charles and Ray Eames and the Un-Private House on exhibition in New York / article by Pier Paolo Falone in Modo no.200 November/December 1999 / p.15
The Case Study House Progam & the American tradition / article by Luc Baboulet in Moniteur Architecture AMC no.98 May 1999 / p.56-63 (text in French) The Eames House: powers of two, Los Angeles, California (Charles and Ray Eames) in Interiors vol.158 no.2 February 1999 / p.70-71 Just a few chairs and a house: an essay on the Eames-aesthetic / article by Peter Smithson in Architectural Design vol.69 no.1/2 January/February 1999 / p.iii 1998 Reflections on the Eames House / article by Beatriz Colomina in Blueprint o.153 September 1998 / p.41-45 Hommage to the Eames / article by Frederic Mialet in D Architectures no.80 January/February 1998 / p.54-55 (text in French) 1997 Charles and Ray Eames: a heritage of invention / article by Beatrice Loyer in Techniques & Architecture no.434 October/November 1997 / p0.98-101 (text in French) Eames work: a legacy of invention / article by Francesca Picchi in Domus no.796 September 1997 / p.53-64 Rave / article by C Ford Peatross (a major retrospective on the work of Charles and Ray Eames) in Blueprint no.142 September 1997 / p.66 The work of Charles and Ray Eames: a legacy of invention / article by Kurt W Forster in Society of Architectural Historians Journal vol.57 no.2 June 1997 / p.201-204
1996 Charles and Ray Eames: an American myth / article by Brigitte Fitoussi in Architecture d Aujourd hui no.308 December 1996 / p.98-107 (text in French, summaries in English) 1989 Experimental House CSH no.8 203 Chautauqua Blvd. Pacific Palisades (1949, Charles and Ray Eames) / article by Marco Visconti in Domus no.711 December 1989 / p.72-84 La Chaise, MOMA 1938/Vira 1989; Designers: Charles Eames, and Ray Eames / article by Marco Visconti in Domus no.708 September 1989 / p.128-132 (text in Italian+English) 1988 Obituary, Ray Eames / article by Michael Gluckman in Architects Journal vol.187 no.36 September 7, 1988 / p.26-27 1983 Eames House; Architects: Charles Eames, and Ray Eames / article by Barbara Goldstein, Charles Lee and Stefanos Polyzoides in Arts and Architecture vol.2 no.2 1983 / p.20-25 1980 An Eames celebration in Architecture SA no.11 Summer 1980 / p.33-37 1979 Charles and Ray Eames: functionalism as a very good beginning / article by Simon Mari Pruys in Wonen-TA/BK no.14 July 1979 / p.26-29 (text in Dutch) RIBA gold: the Office of Charles & Ray Eames in Architectural Design vol.49 no.7 1979 / p.170
Eames images still fresh: the RIBA Gold Medal Award in Building Design no.450 June 15, 1979 / p.2 The office of Charles & Ray Eames get a Royal Gold Medal in RIBA Journal vol.86 no.4 April 1979 / p.143 1975 The two great heroes: interview with Charles and Ray Eames / article by John Maule McKean in Building Design no.267 September 26, 1975 / p.12-13 1973 An affection for objects / article by Esther McCoy in Progressive Architecture vol.54 no.8 August 1973 / p.64-67 1962 Architect s house, Los Angeles; Designed by Charles and Ray Eames in Architecture d Aujourd hui no.103 1962 / p.2-3 (text in French) Website www.eamesoffice.com Compiled by Aileen Smith, Deputy Librarian June 2015