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Projects in San Diego • • • • • • • • • • • • •

Alpine- 1 House Borrego-1 House City Heights-1 House Clairemont-1 Building College Area-1 House Cuyamaca-1 House Del Mar-3 Houses La Jolla-13 Houses and Buildings La Mesa-1 Building Loma Porta-1 House Mission Bay-1 House Mission Hills-2 Houses Mt. Helix-2 Houses

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Ocean Beach-1 House Oceanside-1 House Old Town-1 House Pacific Beach-2 Houses Point Loma-25 Houses including several of hi Poway-1 House Ramona-1 House San Diego-3 Houses San Diego County Estates-1 House Solana Beach-2 Houses University City-1 House Unknown

Alpine

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Jerome Lipetzky Residence-1965

Clairemont

• Jerome Lipetzky Residence-1965

South Clairemont Community Center-1966

Cuyamaca

Custom Home on North Park

Del Mar

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Helen Esling Residence 1954

La Jolla

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African Methodist Episcopal Church-1947

Alma Skinner-1949

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Catherine James Residence-1953

Nicholas Van Dorn ResidenceAddition 1968

Joyce Schmock Residence-1953

J. Hall Hood Residence-1955

La Mesa

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Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Palk Residence-Addition-1955

Mission Bay

Mission Bay Aquatic Control Center-1960

Mission Hills

Bravo & Schwartz Law Offices-1982

Mission Hills

Bravo & Schwartz Law Offices-1982

Mt. Helix

Mr. and Mrs. Paul Engstrand Residence-1964

Vintage Photo done by John Waggaman

Old Town

Bryan Worthington Residence-1968

Pacific Beach

Dan Dickey Residence-1958

ZLAC Rowing Club Residence-1961

Point Loma

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Mr. and Mrs. Richards second, third, and fourth homes in this town.

John Hartley’s photograph of Mr. and Mrs. Joachim Liebmann’s 1959 Home

Brooke and Frank Lo Peste Residence

Ramona

Betty Meador and Mel Kettner (original house)

San Diego

Balboa Park Golf Course Building Mr. and Mrs. T.R. Newsom Residence-1955 Morley Field Tennis Center-1975

San Diego County Estates

Weinberg Residence-1978 Photograph is unknown

Solana Beach

Mr. and Mrs. A.L. and Winetta Childs Residence-1952 Photo by William Aplin

Herschell Larrick’s Residence

University City

All Saints Lutheran Church-1964

Unknown Dates and Locations

Admiral Hord Residence 1952

Grange Residence 1974 Oceanside

Keogh Residence-1960 J. Spencer Lake, Architect AIA remodeled

Loft Residence-Rancho Santa Fe

Morrison Residence

Peterson Residence circa 1973

Artwork

The Beginning

Mr. Richards pitiqued the interest of an architect by the name of Frank Lloyd Wright. His rug work impressed Mr. Wright to the point of inviting him to join his Taliesin Fellowship

Taliesin Group

The Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture was formally initiated in 1932 when twenty-three apprentices came to live and learn at Taliesin. The first twenty-three apprentices who formed the Taliesin Fellowship in 1932 and other pioneers who joined them in the early 1930's included some remarkably talented men and women. Mr. Richards, at the age of 26, he May 1934 and September 1935, 1935 worked along side his time’s most promising architects including Edgar Kaufmann Jr., Gene Masselink, and Bill Bernoudy.

Comparison

Many who know Frank Lloyd Wright knows that he didn’t do any projects in San Diego County himself. But it is obvious who his followers are by the resemblance of his work incorporated into their designs. A ghost-like presence of the great Architect before them

After the Fellowship

Mr. Richards arrived in San Diego in 1938 and drafted into the Navy which is the known military group in the area today. He met his wife, Jane soon after, married in 1944 and had two sons.

Earlier Sketches

Inspiration

Frank Lloyd Wright, Antoni Gaudi and Louis Sullivan helped Architects such as Sim Bruce Richards, Loch Crane, Frederick Liebhardt, Kendrick Bangs Kellogg, and James Hubbell embrace nature as their inspiration not only in materials and form, but it citing sustainability, flexibility, and humanism.

Quotes

“Gates opening into new spaces, walls folding away to reveal more and more —these keys of my design.”

Quotes

“Gates opening into new spaces, walls folding away to reveal more and more —these keys of my design.”

Work Cited

http://www.taliesin.edu/pages/history.html http://www.modernsandiego.com/SimBruceRichards.html Nature In Architecture: the work of sim bruce richards by Cox, Maurine and John L., The San Diego Museum of Natural History 1984.