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A rare look inside Bernard Judge's 1970s experimental Tree House, shaped by ecology

LOS ANGELES -- Is it possible to feel marooned in a wilderness hideaway in the middle of Los Angeles? It is if you are inhabiting the experimental home that architect Bernard Judge built for himself in the 1970s.

Set high on the crest on an impossibly steep hillside overlooking West Hollywood, the "Tree House," as it is known, not only feels like stepping into a real-deal tree house, it seems to approximate the form of a

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