Rex Lotery, FAIA
The Spanner Residence, 1968, Woodland Hills, CA
Donald Olsen, Architect
The Olsen Residence, 1954, Berkeley, CA
John Lautner, FAIA
The Alexander House, 1951, Long Beach, CA
$ 1,650,000
Gordon Newsom 310.486.0156
$ 2,695,000
Crosby Doe 310.428.6755
While not widely known by the general public, Skinner has made sig-
nificant contributions to the architectural fabric of Trousdale Estates,
and Coldwater Canyon where he lived for many years building his de-
signs. Early work such as his house on Cherokee, & modernist master-
piece on Castle Place were executed in the flat roof post & beam style.
vides more dramatic space with pitched high ceilings as displayed here.
With several distinct iterations, drawings of the Alexander House at
the Getty Research Library attests to a strong dialog between the cli-
ent and architect for the residence served the family so well for the
last 66 years without alteration! Located in Park Estates, a planned
community affording large lots, and wide tree lined streets and cus-
tom built houses, and overseen by an architectural review committee.
The Alexander House spreads wide and low across its exspansive site.
Rex Lotery developed a hillside building solution in which light & space
are gloriously one. Completely unlike Lotery's sprawling one-story Trous-
dale designs, here a 2-story exterior suggests a conventional division
into ground-floor public spaces and walled-off upper sleeping floor. At
entry the visitor discovers instead a series of interlocking volumes and
spaces on multiple levels unfolding as one progresses from one to the
next. Light suffuses all, from mitered corner windows & high clerestories.
The architect's own home! Listed in the prestigious National Register of
Historic Places, and a City of Berkeley Historic Landmark, the Olsen House
presents a striking counterpoint to the more familiar Bay Area Modern
Style. Built seemingly as a demonstration project, the Harvard educated
architect applied his "high art" International Style training, as championed
by Walter Gropius, to create his own "machine for living in a garden."
$ 1,395,000
Michael Phillips 310.927.9189
$ 1,795,000
Crosby Doe 310.428.6755
Robert Skinner, AIA
Chalet-style Modernism, 1968, Beverly Hills, CA
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