Saul Bass

The case study house #20 was originally built for Saul Bass, designer, and his wife Dr.Ruth Bass, a bio-chemist; they have three children. Bass collaborated on the design. “It is my business to visualize,” he said, “but the house was full of surprises. The architects must take full credit.

Of the vaults he said: “ They are an important visual aspect, but the beauty of the space does not depend upon them. They added the richness of curved space, and the sensuous satisfaction of volumes, but what was most pleasing were the vistas from every point. As in the piazza system of European cityscapes, you move around a bend and spaces are revealed. You wander through space.”

Saul Bass (May 8, 1920 – April 25, 1996) was an American graphic designer and Academy Award-winning filmmaker, but he is best known for his design on animated motion picture title sequences.
During his 40-year career he worked for some of Hollywood's greatest filmmakers, including most notably Alfred Hitchcock, Otto Preminger, Stanley Kubrick and Martin Scorsese. Amongst his most famous title sequences are the animated paper cut-out of a heroin addict's arm for Preminger's The Man with the Golden Arm, the text racing up and down what eventually becomes a high-angle shot of the United Nations building in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest, and the disjointed text that raced together and was pulled apart for Psycho.
Saul Bass designed the sixth AT&T Bell System logo. He also designed AT&T's "globe" logo after the breakup of the Bell System. Bass also designed Continental Airlines' 1968 "jetstream" logo, which became the most recognized airline industry logo of the 1970s.

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