Beverley Thorne, the Last Surviving Case Study Architect

With Julius Shulman passing away last year, so too are many of the original owners, and with them goes direct connection to famous Case Study homes. The LA Times files this great profile on Beverley Thorne, the last remaining architect to have participated in the magazine Arts & Architecture‘s 1945 to 1966 project to introduce modern architecture by up-and-coming and cutting-edge architects at the time. Thorne was responsible for Case Study House No. 26, beautiful in all steel, glass, and concrete, in San Rafael, California, built toward the end of the project, between ’62 and ’63.