Home Tour: Ruth Hasell’s modern statement

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Poured-in-place concrete walls. Glued laminated Douglas fir beams. A galvanized steel roof.

Architect Ruth Hasell’s emphatically modern home in Orange County isn’t just a rejection of the phony French castles and wannabe Tuscan villas proliferating in nearby housing developments. It’s also her vision of what more homes in Southern California could -- and should -- look like.

‘I wanted the house to be a vivid reflection of built work that was Californian and a direct response to our time and to this place,’ she says, ‘not a dim reflection of a misremembered style from another lifetime and another continent.’

Check out our 20-picture gallery of Hasell’s house or read the related article.

-- Emily Young

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