An Architect’s Light-Filled Home Is Tailored to the Scale of a SoCal Neighborhood
A California architect designs a home for his growing family that seamlessly fits into the neighborhood—and boasts an outdoor living room.
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From the 1930s to the 1950s, Los Angeles developers rapidly built large suburban tracts of modest, two-bedroom homes that reflected the lifestyle and market of the time. Fast forward to today, and many of the new homes being built in these aging neighborhoods are large, four-plus-bedroom constructions that are at odds with their surroundings.
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Mandi Keighran
Design and travel writer based in London.
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