Mid-Century Modern Homes in Los Angeles County

482 homes for sale in Los Angeles County are described as mid-century, post-and-beam or Case Study in their listings, asking $225,000 to $34,995,000. The most are in Los Angeles, Long Beach, Woodland Hills.

A mid-century modern home is a house built in the modern style of roughly the late 1940s through the 1960s. Typical features are open floor plans, post-and-beam construction, walls of glass, flat or low-pitched roofs and a close connection to the garden. In Southern California the style ranges from custom houses by architects like Richard Neutra and John Lautner to tract homes by builders like Joseph Eichler.

Post-and-beam is a way of building in which vertical posts and horizontal beams, usually exposed wood, carry the weight of the roof. Because the walls do not hold the house up, they can be replaced with glass, which is what gives many mid-century homes their open, indoor-outdoor feel.