The Sea Ranch

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ISBN: 9781568983868
English edition
Princeton Architectural Press
Hardcover, 304 pages
27,9 x 27,9 cm
colour/black & white
March 2004
€49,50 (excl. VAT)

The Sea Ranch

Donlyn Lyndon, Jim Alinder

The Sea Ranch, located 100 miles north of San Francisco, covers several thousand acres of large, open meadows and forested natural settings interspersed with award-winning architecture. When the area was rediscovered for its beauty in the 1960s, it came to be envisioned as a home community that harmonized with the environment.

Renowned landscape designer Lawrence Halprin’s master plan for The Sea Ranch community building guidelines that minimized the visual as well as physical impact upon the landscape. Subsequent buildings by architects such as Joseph Esherick, Charles Moore, William Turnbull, Obie Bowman and Donlyn Lyndon, have been recognized worldwide for environmentally sensitive planning and architecture. They sparked a generation of imitators that became part of what is known as "The Sea Ranch style".

Lavishly illustrated with over 300 newly commissioned photographs and including maps, plans and detailed descriptions of the houses.