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"The urge to surprise and be different, the urge to create at small scale monumental architectural recollections, and the urge to be a part of the planning of a larger environment— all these are present in Charles Moore's earlier work. And all these coalesce vividly in the famous Sea Ranch Condominium, whose completion marked the beginning of the first major phase of his career as an architect."

"The image...is Californian, and the recollection it stirs is of old barns and country industrial structures—'mineshaft modern,' its critics called it."

— Gerald Allen. Charles Moore. New York: Whitney Library of Design, 1980. p.30.

"Confronted with designing the condominium complex of Sea Ranch on a spectacular Pacific Ocean site north of San Francisco, Moore Lyndon Turnbull Whitaker tightly grouped the units around a courtyard with traditional shed roofs an intersecting and towerlike wall planes, creating an overall commanding form but one of identifiably individual parts, at once casual and modest, open to views and sun yet sheltered and protected from the wind. It was a concept of cluster designed to preserve the openness of a rugged and beautiful site, the California wood tradition projected into a mid-sixties leaner sensibility and aesthetic, with a builder's type awareness of economy."

— from Paul Heyer. American Architecture: Ideas and Ideologies in the Late Twentieth Century. p106-107.

The Creator's Words

"We sought a partnership of buildings with this vast landscape which required more size and presence than most houses have, and more care in the arrangements than most people working somewhere else chose to give."

— Charles Moore, Gerald Allen, Donlyn Lyndon. The Place of Houses. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1974. p47.

"At the Sea Ranch, houses merge into the forest with great success; in the meadows, however, houses need to set up partnerships with the land forms and with each other which turned out to be very difficult to achieve."

— Moore, Allen, Lyndon. The Place of Houses. p48.

Details

American Institute of Architects 25 Year Award, 1991