I just spent a few days 100 miles up the coast at The Sea Ranch. Beautiful rustic modern homes salt and pepper ten miles of land between the ocean bluffs and redwoods, more than half of them abandoned until the winter (June, July, August) passes. I believe it was a place where in the 60s hippie architects from Berkeley came to revolutionize environmentally conscious architecture. What it feels like now is an all too quiet town after the cult moved out. We saw maybe 3 other humans the entire time, leaving us alone to the private beaches, wild forrest and empty rec centers. Made for a killer weekend.
Sea Ranch was not created by “hippie architects”, but by some very established architects and planners with a real vision about how people should live in and with the environment.
I’ve been going up to SR for years, altho I don’t own a house there.
And while some of those early hopes and designs the founders had back in 1964 have been violated occasionally, it still is a wonderful place.