Just the mention of Midcentury Modern architecture easily conjures up Julius Shulman's image of Pierre Koenig's Case Study House 22, cantile-vering 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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