In the gymnasium, for instance, the ceiling structure impresses one as impossibly light. For Morphosis, the restrictions proved beneficial. They forced the architecture to constantly reexamine itself, to look to the immaterial for inspiration and solutions. In this and other recent projects, Mayne has moved to a new way to make architecture. For Diamond Ranch, his firm rose to the occasion, finding economy where before it might have sought the opposite, concentrating on large moves, a unifying formal language.
Education can transcend wealth.
Honesty and ingenuity will lead to success. In this, as well as the rest of the design of Diamond Ranch, there is much to learn. Alice Kimm, AIA, is a partner in the Los Angeles firm John Friedman Alice Kimm Architects. The roofs form a new horizon, symbolizing the gift of education to expand the recipient's breadth. The school is formed by two rows of classrooms flanking a central pedestrian spine.