Normal text size Very large text size One of history’s most powerful images is a dramatic black-and-white shot of two women in big dresses and tiny pumps chatting in a transparent glass box. It’s night-time. The glass box is held between two sheer white planes high above the Hollywood hills. Its ribbed ceiling, uplit, soars out over limitless space. Out there, gridded with tiny lights and spread to the horizon, is the vast Los Angelean sprawl. That, of course, was before the hubristic smog arrived. These days, the same image shows an horizon of brown smudge. The house is Pierre Koenig’s 1959 Stahl House, aka Case Study House #22. In 1945, six months before the end of World War II, the young editor of the California-based