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Structure Type: built works - dwellings - houses
Designers: Esherick, Homsey, Dodge, and Davis (EHDD) (firm); Halprin, Lawrence and Associates, Landscape Architects (firm); MLTW/Moore-Turnbull, Architects (firm); Charles M. Davis (architect); Peter Hampton Dodge (architect); Joseph Esherick Jr. (architect); Lawrence Halprin (landscape architect); George Homsey (architect); Charles Willard Moore (architect); William Turnbull Jr. (architect); Richard R. Whitaker Jr. (architect)
Dates: constructed 1964-1965
Overview
The visually modest, vernacular-influenced architecture of Sea Ranch became one of the most influential building complexes of the 1960s and 1970s. In particular, it popularized among architects and other designers the use of shed-roofed boxes, often covered in shingles or wood siding, for apartment and condominium developments across the United States. The Sea Ranch continued the environmentally-respectful and muted architectural traditions begun in Berkeley by Charles Keeler, Bernard Maybeck, John Galen Howard and others and later developed and updated by William W. Wurster, Gardner Dailey and Joseph Esherick.
Building History
The firms MLTW, Esherick Homsey Dodge and Davis and Lawrence Halprin worked for Oceanic Properties, the developer of Sea Ranch.
Building Notes
The American Institute of Architects gave the Sea Ranch complex an Honor Award in 1968, and also awarded a Twenty-Five Year Award in 1991.
DOCOMOMO US will hold its Sea Ranch Weekend at Sea Ranch between Friday, 10/18/2024 and Sunday, 10/20/2024. The following buildings were to be toured: Sea Ranch Condo #9, Baker House, Reverdy Johnson House, Esherick House, Haring Magoules House, Mini-Mod #3, Walk-In Cabin, Vedensky House, Miglio House, Moonraker Recreation Center, Ohlson Recreation Center, Sea Ranch Chapel, Sea Ranch Lodge, Hines House, and Tom and Karin's House (aka "Tom and Karin's Place).
PCAD id: 911
