The Sea Ranch
Subtitle: fifty years of architecture, landscape, place, and community on the Northern California coast
By: Donlyn Lyndon, Jim Alinder ; essays by Donald Canty and Lawrence Halprin
Contributors: Alinder, James, author; Canty, Donald, writer of supplementary textual content; Halprin, Lawrence, writer of supplementary textual content
Edition: Second, revised edition.
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781616891770
Subjects: Architecture; Planned communities; History
Description: "One hundred miles north of San Francisco, the Sonoma County coast meets the Pacific Ocean in a magnificent display of nature. This is the location of the Sea Ranch, an area covering several thousand acres of large, open meadows and forested natural settings and interspersed with award-winning architecture. The ecologically inspired plan drawn up for the Sea Ranch in the mid-1960s caused a quiet revolution in architecture. Renowned landscape designer Lawrence Halprin's master plan incorporated a set of building guidelines that structured the visual, as well as physical, impact upon the landscape. Subsequent buildings by architects such as Joseph Esherick, Charles Willard Moore, Donlyn Lyndon, and William Turnbull have been recognized worldwide for their remarkable environmental sensitivity. This revised and updated edition of the now-classic monograph, the only one on the Sea Ranch, contains eleven additional projects and an updated account of the ongoing development process and land-management issues"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (page 300) and index.
Table of contents: title: The Sea Ranch: dimensions of experience; title: The founding vision; title: Origins, evolutions, and ironies / Donald Canty; title: Engaging the wind, the land, and the sun: first buildings : Condominium One : Unit One; Unit Four; Unit Eight; Unit Nine ; Hedgerow Houses: House One; House Four; Esherick House ; Moonraker Athletic Center; title: Living lightly with the land: managing the landscape; title: Seeking a larger order: compounds and clusters : The Sea Ranch Lodge ; Ohlson Recreation Center ; Del Mar Center ; Walk-in cabins : Unit 52 ; Cluster houses on White Fir Wood and Madrone Meadow: Unit 4; Unit 18 ; Employee housing ; The cottages : Cottage Two ; Sea Gate Row : Lyndon-Wingwall House; Day House ; Wendel-Lyndon House; title: Houses that suit their place : Houses that connect : Kirkwood House; Halley House; Burnsell House; Maslach-Zimbardo House; Michael House; McKenzie House; Herrera-Gerdes House; Somers House; Spudich House; Fisch House; title: Houses that settle : Johnson House; Binker Barns; Rush House; Wilde House; Burdick House; Rasmussen House; Brodie House; Gilbert House; Uebel House; Dryden-Ferguson House ; Houses that enfold : Whitaker/Ekman House; Anderson House; Clayton House; Schneider House; Yudell-Beebe House; Boyd House; Munger House; Watson-Finnegan House; Stein-Pers House ; Houses that inhabit : Vedensky House; Caygill House; Miglio House; Lichter-Marck House; Baas-Walrod House; Goran House; Evans House; Seck-Orenberg House; Ramirez House; Clark-Cochrane House; title: The Halprin Place : forty years on site / Lawrence Halprin : Halprin House; title: Designing for place at the Sea Ranch.