More Investigation in Organic/Natural Architecture:

Sea Ranch Architecture: Charles Moore & Joseph Esherick


Inspired by the landscape and the farm structures that previously existing on the site, Sea Ranch was developed in the 1960s. The "Sea Ranch" style is considered to be a hybrid of modern-vernacular architecture. The structures are of timber-frame construction, simply clad in unpainted wood shingles.
The goal of the design was to merge the architecture into the landscape - similar to that of the architecture of Avoriaz.


Bruce Goff Architecture


Goffs architecture was inspired local/native materials of the site such as stone and wood, although he was known to use unconventional materials: "ashtrays embedded into walls, cellophane strips to replace chandeliers, hanging turkey feathers to enhance movement through a home."


Ukiyo-e Prints: "Pictures of the floating world"
These prints such as these inspired architects (Goff, FLW)




Imre Makovecz


This Hungarian architect is known for his organic design and style.

"The substructure imitates the earth, just as does the trunk of a tree, as that is where it emerges: the superstructure, like the foliage and thinner branches, imitates the sun and the 'love of life'."

"It's time we always have trouble with because we think that things follow one another in a straight line: Nature however never thought that things followed each other in succession, she knows everything is, or happens at the same time. Animals don't give a thought about tomorrow and they don't think that things happen logically. It's time we always have a problem with. My task is that the building should comprise not only the reality that has been but should embrace all that could have been."