A 21st century ranch house in Ventura County

(Michael Robinson Chavez / Los Angeles Times)
Though some may see Steven Sharpe’s house as urban in nature, architect Zoltan Pali says the structure fundamentally is a country house responding to its setting. “Rural has always been associated with simplicity, sparseness and function,” Pali says. “That is this house.”
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