SEA RANCH – It was an era of now unimaginable optimism, when one believed that architecture and planning could save the world – or at least save the environment. In 1964, members of the architecture ...

This story originally ran in Sonoma Magazine. Al and Diana Edgerton were tooling north to Mendocino for a July 4 getaway in 1964 when they were beckoned off Highway 1 by a “lots for sale” sign bearing ...

The Sea Ranch came to be “the California architectural monument of the 1960s,” in the words of design historian David Gebhard. For an exhilarating historical moment, the energies of postwar suburban ...

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Today he is adding his own voice to the development’s history as the talent tapped to renovate the Sea Ranch Lodge, one of the site’s earliest structures, erected in the late 1960s following a design ...

Fifty years ago, a breathtaking, 10-mile-long, mile-wide strip of the California coast, 105 miles north of the Golden Gate Bridge, was declared a privately-owned model community and opened for ...

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) examines one of the earliest innovations in environmentally conscious development in its current exhibition, The Sea Ranch: Architecture, Environment, ...