Sea Ranch: Influential Architecture Threatened By Sprawl

Sea Ranch, a community established by Lawrence Haprin, Charles Moore and others in the 1960s, combined ecology and inventive architecture.

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June 3, 2001, 12:00 PM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"Here on the California coast, 110 miles north of San Francisco, a community begun in the spirit of the 1960's struggles to maintain its architectural ideals...they built weekend houses that were remarkably attuned to the windswept landscape of dense woods and open meadows...[that] united the emerging field of ecology More than three decades later, the defining spirit of Sea Ranch is being tested by a new population of residents.with an inventive architecture..."

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan

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Sunday, June 3, 2001 in The New York Times

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