Ranch Houses: Living the California Dream

by David Weingarten and Lucia Howard

With its archetypal open plan and reverence of indoor-outdoor living, the Ranch house is at the very heart of the California dream. When we picture California Ranch houses--the low-slung, informal dwellings that engulfed suburbs after World War II--we are thinking of just one part of a phenomenon that has its roots in early-nineteenth-century ranchos, and which continues today in houses that are startling and up-to-the-minute. Examples of the type...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0847831825
• ISBN13: 9780847831821
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 3.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 9.2" x 11.3"