Over the years, Sea Ranch has become a destination for architectural pilgrims, me included in 2017, attracted by the pastoral modernism of its early buildings. But it’s also a thriving community that gains 30 or so houses each year. One of the newer structures, sheathed in rough concrete and Cor-Ten steel, takes the Sea Ranch principles to heart. As Donlyn Lyndon, one of the original Sea Ranch architects, says, "It is a real continuation of what we were trying to do."
Fifty years ago, a group of young architects began planning a cluster of contemporary houses on a rugged strip of coastline north of San Francisco. The goal was to turn a ten-mile expanse of bluffs and beaches into a community where modest, rustic second homes would blend in with the landscape. Among the founding architects was Charles Moore, a future dean of the Yale School of Architecture whose own condo featured a bedroom raised on corner posts over the living and dining rooms, partaking of their light and views. Another was Joseph Esherick, whose famous Hedgerow Houses use occasional steps, two or three at a time, to scale the gently sloping sites.
Over the years, Sea Ranch has become a destination for architectural pilgrims, me included in 2017, attracted by the pastoral modernism of its early buildings. But it’s also a thriving community that gains 30 or so houses each year. One of the newer structures, sheathed in rough concrete and Cor-Ten steel, takes the Sea Ranch principles to heart. As Donlyn Lyndon, one of the original Sea Ranch architects, says, "It is a real continuation of what we were trying to do."
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18/5/2019 12:55:48 pm
An architect is what I aspire to be in the future. I mean, there is no better profession for me. I am someone who looks at building and just start appreciating them. I have always been fond of drawing architectural buildings. The only problem that I have is that I do not have the financial power to study architecture. I hope to get into any form of scholarship so that I can study. Wish me good luck in my future ventures.
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11/11/2020 06:07:20 am
The new house construction and making the more thoughts as well on new construction and new buildings as well. We all are finding here more thoughts and making the impressive services.
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