The Third Bay Tradition is an architectural style from the period of 1945 through the 1980s that was rooted in the greater

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, with its best known example being Sea Ranch. Considered a hybrid of modern and vernacular styles, the tradition was codified by the design works of

Donlyn Lyndon Donlyn Lyndon is an American Third Bay Tradition architect and the Eva Li Professor Emeritus of Architecture and Urban Design at the University of California, Berkeley. Lyndon was a co-designer of Sea Ranch, California. Education M.F.A. Archit ...

, Charles Moore, Marcel Sedletzky, and William Turnbull. The style was characterized by turning the horizontal form of the California ranch house into a vertical form that resembled the vernacular farm building. The tradition had playful, woodsy, and informal characteristics. It was environmentally attentive, though more abstract. It was cubistic and featured dramatic natural light. According to San Francisco's planning committee, characteristics of a Third Bay Tradition house include "wood shingle cladding, plain wood siding, square bay windows, asymmetrical massing, ribbon windows, and shed roof forms". The Esther M. Hill House blends geometric forms with natural materials found in the

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tradition. The residence has an open plan and is an example of the Third Bay Tradition style. A repository of plans from the tradition are housed at the

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at the

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