ABSTRACT
There were few architects whose pre-war interest in steel houses survived the war years, most of the new building of the late 1940s and early 1950s being the work of a younger generation. Richard Neutra, Erik Friberger, George Fred Keck and Albert Frey, all of whom had made significant contributions to steel house building, virtually abandoned the process. But in California, Raphael Soriano succeeded in picking up where he had left off, the Katz House carrying on the construction method of the pre-war Jewish Community Center and Hallawell Nursery, while in post-war Kansas, Richard Buckminster Fuller continued the development of the Dymaxion House. In Illinois Mies van der Rohe recreated an architecture which he had introduced back in Europe in the late 1920s, and in France, Jean Prouvé continued to build.
