Shulman House, Steel frame residence in Hollywood Hills, California, US
Shulman House is a steel frame home in the Hollywood Hills, designed with large glass walls, concrete floors, and an open floor plan. The building incorporates a photography studio and screened outdoor areas as part of its main structure.
Raphael Soriano designed the house in 1947 and finished it in under a year, at a time when Southern California was testing new building materials and construction methods. It was among the first fully steel-built private homes in the region.
The house served Julius Shulman as both home and workplace, from which he photographed California's modern buildings over several decades. The large windows and open spaces he worked in daily give visitors a direct sense of how closely his environment shaped his work.
The house sits in a hillside neighborhood in the Hollywood Hills where the roads are narrow and winding, so arriving on foot or by car requires attention. Visits are not open to the public and must be arranged in advance.
The house still has its original cork entry sequence and screened-in patios, which most other steel frame homes of this era had altered over the decades. This makes it the least changed example of Soriano's work and shows how the original materials have actually aged.
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