{"product_id":"the-sea-ranch","title":"The Sea Ranch","description":"\u003cp\u003eA hundred miles north of San Francisco on California Coast Highway 1  the Sonoma County coast meets the Pacific Ocean in a magnificent display of nature. Waves crash upon the rocks or wash up on beautiful stretches of sandy beaches. This is the location of The Sea Ranch  an area covering several thousand acres of large  open meadows and forested natural settings interspersed with award-winning architecture. When the area  a sheep ranch well into the last century  was rediscovered for its beauty in the 1960s  it came to be envisioned as a home community that harmonized with the environment. Renowned landscape designer Lawrence Halprins master plan for The Sea Ranch community accordingly incorporated a set of building guidelines that minimized the visual as well as physical impact upon the landscape. Subsequent buildings by architects such as Joseph Esherick  Charles Moore  William Turnbull  Obie Bowman  Donlyn Lyndon  and others have been recognized worldwide for environmentally sensitive planning and architecture. They sparked a generation of imitators that became part of what is known as \"The Sea Ranch style \" epitomizing what many people imagine when they think of Northern Californian architecture. This beautiful monograph  lavishly illustrated with over 300 newly commissioned photographs and including maps  plans  detailed descriptions of the houses  and essays by Donald Canty and Lawrence Halprin  presents the definitive record of The Sea Ranch community.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44946440421429,"sku":"ByrdShop_1568983867","price":429.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781568983868_35634c60-62be-40d7-a66e-ce01711c679b.jpg?v=1770309831","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-sea-ranch","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}