The Eames Houses

The Eames Houses is the first comprehensive overview of Charles and Ray Eames's residential architecture, presenting all eight houses the couple designed between 1945 and 1955 — including several previously unpublished. Written by Eckart Maise, a board director of the Charles & Ray Eames Foundation, with contributions from curator Catherine Ince and forewords by Norman Foster and Eames Demetrios, the book traces a body of work defined by structural clarity, user-centred functionality, and inventive prefabrication. Drawn largely from the Eames Office archives, it includes sketches, letters, and photographs — many published here for the first time — alongside newly commissioned photography and diagrams. One chapter is devoted entirely to Case Study House No. 8, the Eameses' own home in Pacific Palisades, while the rest of the book situates their architecture alongside their better-known work in furniture, film, and exhibition design.