For $18K, rent a midcentury modern dream home in the Hollywood Hills

We don’t know many people with $18,000 to spend on rent, but if we did, we’d visit them at this incredible midcentury modern home in the Hollywood Hills.

Located just above Runyon Canyon Park, the house was built in 1959 and designed by pioneering architect Eugene Kinn Choy. The first Asian-American architect accepted into the Southern California chapter of the American Institute of Architects, Choy also designed the elegant Cathay Bank building in Chinatown.

This home, called the Brander House, was photographed by celebrated architectural photographer Julius Shulman in 1961, and based on those images, it seems to be in mostly original condition.

The house hit the market earlier this year for the first time since 1972. Advertised for $9.3 million, it’s now listed as a rental.

Featuring 3,772 square feet of living space, the home has three bedrooms and an office space or guest room, along with four bathrooms. Interior features include hardwood floors, walls of glass, exposed beams, and sliding doors that provide outdoor access from nearly every room. A concrete breeze block forms one wall of the home’s covered entrance, which includes a shallow pond and skylights.

The residence sits on an acre of land with plenty of garden space, a large swimming pool, a tennis court, and a sauna. Monthly rent is $18,000.

• 7266 Outpost Cove Drive [Jacqueline Tager, Diane Evans | Sotheby’s]