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    CALIFORNIA SOUL

    Aug 05, 2018 4 minutes
    IMAGES AND WORDS LESLIE WILLIAMSON

    THE FOLLOWING IS AN ABRIDGED EXCERPT FROM HER BOOK.

    SINCE THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY, the Los Angeles area has been a hotbed of influential and innovative architecture. Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Neutra, Rudolph Schindler, Greene and Greene, Thom Mayne, Frank Gehry, not to mention the architects of the Case Study House program.

    The list of architects that made a mark here is daunting. Ray Kappe (b. 1927) sits easily among these luminaries, yet his place in this group is singular and distinctive. Best known for his expansive glass-and-wood homes whose integration with the landscape epitomises California living, his impact as a pioneer

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