A List Of Things Thrown Five Minutes Ago

IT WAS ONCE UPON A PLACE SOMETIMES I LISTEN TO MYSELF: Since I mentioned in Matt's thread that Robie House is one of the ten most architecturally-significant (which is not to say best) American houses, I thought I'd round out the list. Off the top of my head, and accepting that I can't count, I came up with the following list. I realize it skews modern, which is personal preference, and that it skews extremely LA, which I think is totally legitimate -- LA, unlike New York, Chicago, and most older cities, is principally a single-family-residence town, and most of the houses built in older cities were built in less architecturally ambitious times; if we were listing non-residential architecture (or multi-residence architecture), I think the list would skew the other way. If you live in the south, sorry, your house sucks. Anyway, in no particular order:

• Lovell House, Richard Neutra, or Lovell Beach House, Rudolph Schindler
  
• Robie House, Kauffman House (Fallingwater), and Ennis-Brown House, Frank Lloyd Wright
  
• Chemosphere, John Lautner
  
• Gropius House, Walter Gropius
  
• Monticello, Thomas Jefferson
  
• Johnson House (Glass House), Phillip Johnson, and Farnsworth House, Mies van der Rohe (thanks, Adlai)
  
• Vanna Venturi House, Robert Venturi
  
• Gehry House, Frank Gehry
  
• Gamble House and Blacker House, Greene & Greene
  
• Case Study House #22, Pierre Koenig, or if you prefer, Charles Eames's Case Study House # 8, or if you're still not decided, Koenig's Case Study House # 21

And while I'm at it, here are four that will never make the list:

• Lucy, the Elephant Building
  
• Duck Building
  
• Hat and Boots Gas Station
  
• San Simeon