The Sea Ranch: Fifty Years of Architecture, Landscape, Place, and Community on the Northern California Coast (Sea Ranch Illustrated C

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.

Author: Donlyn Lyndon, Jim Alinder
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Published: 11/12/2013
Pages: 303
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 4.35lbs
Size: 11.10h x 11.30w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781616891770

About the Author
Donlyn Lyndon was one of the founding partners of the renowned architecture firm Moore, Lyndon, Turnbull, Whitaker (MLTW).

Jim Alinder is an internationally recognized fine-art photographer.