Architect Clive Wilkinson’s L.A. Home Perches Over a Commanding View

An architect draws on the best of L.A. living for his family’s new home.
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In the conventional reading of the Los Angeles landscape, there’s the beach, there’s the hills, and there’s the flatlands: three of the city’s four "ecologies," as the critic Reyner Banham famously called them—each with its own brand of domestic architecture. So what happens when these ecologies meet? 

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Ian Volner
Writer and critic Ian Volner has contributed articles on architecture and design to New York Magazine, Architect, The Paris Review, and Interior Design, among other publications. He lives in Manhattan.

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