Carefree California: Cliff May and the Romance of the Ranch House

If you are anywhere near Santa Barbara from April 12 to June 17, don’t miss this exhibit at The Art, Design & Architecture Museum!

“The exhibition and accompanying catalogue examine the modernization of the ranch tradition and its transition from regional designs in adobe, brick, tile, and stucco to the modest wood and glass tract house of the forties, to the near-minimal system-built ranches May designed and sold in the late 1950s and, finally, to his luxury ranch houses.”

–from the museum website

For more information: http://www.uam.ucsb.edu/Cliff_May.html

Bucky or Lautner, either's a good show

Whether you're on the East or the West Coast, you've got fantastic options for heading out to a great architecture exhibition right now. With Buckminster Fuller: Starting With the Universe (through Sept. 21) at the Whitney in NYC and Between Earth and Heaven: The Architecture of John Lautner (through October 12) at the Hammer Museum in LA, either one gets you an awesome exhibition of great mid-century architecture (and beyond).

If you're in NYC, you get to see the only existing Dymaxion!

If you're in LA, you get to see some of the greatest houses known to man.

Another exhibition worth mentioning, just a little further up the coast on the left is A Beautiful Nothing: The Architecture of Edward A. Killingsworth (through October 12) at Santa Barbara's University Art Museum. Man I love me some Killingsworth.