House of the Day: Sea Ranch Condominium by MLTW

Photography by Jim Alinder
Photography by Eric Staten

A client that I visited this week, a frequent visitor to Sea Ranch, couldn’t believe that I didn’t know the houses on this rocky outcrop of California. When I looked them up, I was amazed I hadn’t come across them before. This one is the best of an incredible bunch. Designed by architects Charles Moore, Donlyn Lyndon, William Turnbull and Richard Whitaker (MLTW) in 1965, in collaboration with landscape architect Lawrence Halprin, the house appears to cling limpet-like to the landscape, as much land art as architecture.

Selected by our Founding Director Albert Hill.

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