California modernist and founding director of SCI-Arc, Ray Kappe, died Thursday, November 21, 2019, at the age of 92.
Born in Minneapolis in 1927, Kappe graduated from UC Berkeley’s architecture program in 1951 and founded his own practice in 1954. He was especially known for his residential architecture, which has been described as the “apotheosis of the California Modern House.” Over the course of his career, he experimented with prefabricated building methods; his recent projects—a series of modular, steel-framed houses in Santa Monica—continued techniques he developed for his own 1965 Pacific Palisades residence, which was designated a Cultural Heritage Monument by the City of Los Angeles.
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