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Beach House: California dreaming

Now this makes sense of something that puzzles me about the grand modern beach architecture that's popping up all over the coast line and replacing the fibro shacks of yesterday.

It is not about regionalism in architecture. It is all about the fantasy of living the Californian lifestyle. So the architects produce machines for dreaming in:



The influence is back to Craig Ellwood and his cool, open-plan steel, timber and glass sun-filled houses. That is one
strand of Californian modernism.

The modernist beach house comes late to Australia. Pretty much in the last decade. Why so long?

Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at May 9, 2004 05:15 PM | TrackBack