Arts & Architecture magazine introduced the Case Study program. Originally, eight offices were commissioned to design eight different houses—all slated to be constructed. Each case study would focus on a particular client, modernist ideals and the reuse of technologies realized in the war effort. In the end, 35 houses were designed with 24 of them being built.
The original design for Case Study House #8 (by Charles Eames and Eero Saarinen and referred to as the Bridge House) was rethought after Charles and Ray fell in love with the meadow on which the house was to be built.