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The Sea Ranch: Fifty Years of Architecture, Landscape, Place, and Community on the Northern California Coast - Hardcover

Lyndon, Donlyn; Alinder, Jim

 
9781616891770: The Sea Ranch: Fifty Years of Architecture, Landscape, Place, and Community on the Northern California Coast
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1616891777 ISBN 13: 9781616891770
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press, 2013

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Donlyn Lyndon was one of the founding partners of the renowned architecture firm MLTW. Jim Alinder is an internationally recognised fine art photographer who has worked alongside Ansel Adams and whose images are in the collections of many well-known museums, including New York and San Francisco's Museums of Modern Art.

From the Back Cover

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.

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Publisher
Princeton Architectural Press
Publication date
2013
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1616891777
ISBN 13 
9781616891770
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
2
Number of pages
304