MLTW (Moore, Lyndon, Turnbull, and Whitaker)
(Berkeley, California, Active 1962 - 1970)Charles Willard Moore, Partner
American (Benton Harbor, Michigan, 1925 - 1993, Austin, Texas)Donlyn Lyndon, Partner
American (1936)William Turnbull, Partner
American (New York City, New York, 1935 - 1997, Sausalito, California)Richard Whitaker, Partner
American (Tahoe City, California, 1933)Sea Ranch Condominium, Sea Ranch, California
Located roughly a hundred miles north of San Francisco, Sea Ranch was possibly the most influential West Coast development of the 1960s. The developers hired landscape architect Lawrence Halprin to create building guidelines for the second-home community, which is dispersed along five thousand acres of meadows and wooded glens. His master plan requires dwellings to be designed and sited so that they blend in with the natural setting and minimize their visual and physical impact on the landscape.
MLTW created this much smaller plan for a portion of Sea Ranch that is located on a spectacularly rugged, thirty-five-acre swath of the Pacific Coast. These grassy slopes were to receive intense condominium development, thereby keeping the large-scale structures in one confined area. The diagram shows a cluster of irregularly shaped condominiums disposed kindly on the landscape.
Keywords
architectural drawings, condominiums, hillside architecture, slopes
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