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From Follett
Published in conjunction with the exhibition held Feb. 26-June 17, 2012 at the Art, Design & Architecture Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, as part of "Pacific Standard Time : Art in L.A. 1945-1980, an precedented collaboration of more than sixty cultural institutions across Southern California, coming together to tell the story of the birth of the L.A. art scene.";"Published with the assistance of the Getty Foundation and the Henry Luce Foundation.";Includes essays by Elyse Gonzales and Bruce Robertson.;Includes photographs by Catherine Opie, commissioned by the Art, Design & Architecture Museum for this publication.;Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-263) and index.;Cliff May: architect of the Western lifestyle / Bruce Robertson -- Introduction / Nicholas Olsberg -- I. Looking for California in the archive / Jocelyn Gibbs : Mission revival : Arthur B. Benton -- Spanish and Mediterranean revival : Myron Hunt and Hunt and Chambers ; Carleton Winslow, with Bertram Goodhue, George Washington Smith and Lutah Maria Riggs -- Mystique of Monterey : Roland Coate ; John Byers -- Modernist stirrings : Irving Gill ; R.M. Schindler -- II. Reconstituting the ranch house / Jocelyn Gibbs and Nicholas Olsberg : Old California vernacular : Roland E. Coate ; John Byers ; Palmer Sabin -- Cliff May and the adobe -- Cliff May: haciendas and rancherias -- Rancho de luxe : Cliff May ; Hunt and Chambers ; John Byers and Edla Muir ; Roland E. Coate -- From rancho to tract : H. Roy Kelley ; Palmer Sabin -- Exotic tracts : Robert Stacy-Judd -- Country clubs : Carleton Winslow ; Myron Hunt -- Cliff May's riviera ranch: rancho goes modern -- Don't fence me in / Karal Ann Marling -- III. Prototypes and possibilities / Jocelyn Gibbs and Nicholas Olsberg : Small-unit typologies and minimal houses : Irving Gill ; R.M. Schindler ; Gregory Ain -- Defense and G.I. homes: May's models for the low-cost house, 1946-1949 : Kem Weber ; Thornton Abell -- Postwar experiments : Gregory Ain ; R.M. Schindler ; Lutah Maria Riggs -- Case study houses : Julius R. Davidson ; Richard Neutra ; Thornton Abell ; Whitney Smith -- Sunset Western ranch houses -- House beautiful and the Pace Setter House ; The carefree Californian: Cliff May homes, 1952-1958 / Katherine Kaford Papaneau -- One after another: building homes and making loans / Eric John Abrahamson -- IV. Ranch house as idea / Jocelyn Gibbs : Cliff May House 3 -- The skylight house -- Cliff May House 5 -- California counterpo "This landmark volume is an authoritative, richly illustrated examination of the origins, evolution, and influence of the California ranch house. Carefree California looks at a legendary figure in Southern California design, Cliff May, and the ubiquitous domestic icon his name evokes, the ranch house. We also see how other architects--from George Washington Smith to Rudolph Schindler--pursued different paths toward the same kind of relaxed domesticity exemplified by the ranch house. By the late '50s, much of the world was fascinated with California living and with the ranch house in particular, which derived from architects' evocation and reworking of distinctive regional traditions, allied with the pervasive romance and myths of the California frontier, and from the cultivation of a domestic architecture that could serve distinctively Californian ways of carefree living. By uncovering patterns for living that suited the automobile age among the almost archaic forms and rhythms of mission and pioneer dwellings, an extraordinary range of modernism emerged that was at once grounded in history and soaring into the space age."--Publisher's website.
From the Publisher
This landmark volume is an authoritative, richly illustrated examination of the origins, evolution, and influence of the California ranch house. Carefree California looks at a legendary figure in Southern California design, Cliff May, and the ubiquitous domestic icon his name evokes, the ranch house. We also see how other architects--from George Washington Smith to Rudolph Schindler--pursued different paths toward the same kind of relaxed domesticity exemplified by the ranch house.By the late '50s, much of the world was fascinated with California living and with the ranch house in particular, which derived from architects' evocation and reworking of distinctive regional traditions, allied with the pervasive romance and myths of the California frontier, and from the cultivation of a domestic architecture that could serve distinctively Californian ways of carefree living. By uncovering patterns for living that suited the automobile age among the almost archaic forms and rhythms of mission and pioneer dwellings, an extraordinary range of modernism emerged that was at once grounded in history and soaring into the space age.