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| Raphael Soriano |
In 1931 Soriano interned with Richard Neutra with fellow architect Gregory Ain and had an internship with Rudolf Schindler in 1934. His first commission in his own practice was the Lipetz House in 1936, which was included in the 1937 International Archictctural Exposition in Paris. Other well known designs were the Katz House (1949) and Case Study House 1950 for Arts & Architecture magazine.
In 1953 Soriano moved his practice to Tiburon, California, across the bay from San Francisco. In 1955 he designed the first mass-produced steel house, which was built by Joseph Eichler in Palo Alto. He designed a house for the renowned archictectural photographer Julius Shulman in 1959 and the Grossman House in 1964. He designed 11 "All Aluminum Homes" in Maui in 1965. Many of his 50 building have been destroyed by California wildfires and earthquakes. Only 12 remain, many of which have been remodeled.
From modernsandiego.com
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| Lipetz House you-are-here.com |
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| Rear of Lipetz House takesunset.com
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| Gogol House trianglemodernisthouses.com |
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| Gogol House la.curbed.com |
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| Shulman House cdlib.org |
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| Shulman House tabletmag.com |
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| Shulman Hous la.curbed.com |
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| Schrage House latimes.com |
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| Grossman House trianglemodernisthouses.com |
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| Case Study House 150 at night edwardcella.com |
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| Katz House triangemodernisthouses.com |
Those homes all look so fantastic. It's sort of sad they have almost all been remodeled.
ReplyDeleteNow-a-days everyone is obsessed with new this new that. (Out with the old in with the new)
I have a relative who throws a fit if her cabinets are a couple years old. *HEAVEN FORBID*
It makes me sad to think that so many mid-century homes have had total kitchen and bathroom remodels. The previous owners of my house completely redid the bathroom, but the kitchen cabinets escaped untouched, although they did replace the floor with slate and the countertops with stainless steel. I didn't think I'd like the stainless steel, but it actually fits in nicely and is so easy to keep clean.
DeleteSuch clean lines! They make me nervous.
ReplyDeleteI'm suspicious of anything that clean too. Unnatural, I say. :) Oh, wait...I was thinking of housecleaning.
DeleteIt's kind of ironic that I'm such an MCM fan. We live in a 1927 bungalow in a historic neighborhood in Tampa that we have restored back to it's period correct lustre, furniture and all. It never ceases to amaze me when people come in and tear out and completely remodel bathrooms and kitchens and sometimes whole floor plans to modernize. It's just so wrong!! Next house is going to be a split level ranch... ;)
ReplyDeleteIt amazes me too. If someone wants a new house, why not just build one? Why destroy an old home?
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