Welcome to The Sea Ranch Association

Welcome
Distinctive Architecture + Land Stewardship
In the mid 1960’s, a visionary developer identified 10 miles of former sheep ranch on the Northern California coast in Sonoma County as the ideal place to create a planned community. He gathered a group of renowned like-minded professionals – landscape designers, architects, attorneys, planners and ecologists – to create The Sea Ranch, a place where homes and amenities are informed by nature and the environment.
The Sea Ranch is internationally known for its distinctive architecture, the sensitivity of its land planning and community-based stewardship of the natural environment.

The Sea Ranch Vision Committee. Living at The Sea Ranch.
The Sea Ranch, CA: The Sea Ranch Association, 2019.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. “The Sea Ranch: Architecture, Environment, and Idealism,” January 10, 2019. 12.5 min

Kreyling, C. “From Romance to Reality: A Report on California’s Sea Ranch at 50.” Republished with permission from the author. Planning, (March 2015): pp. 32-37..

Lyndon, D. and Alinder, J. “The Sea Ranch: Fifty Years of Architecture, Landscape, Place, and Community on the Northern California Coast; second revised edition. (New York, Princeton: Architectural Press, 2014). pp. 13-37.
Includes Canty, D. “Origins, Evolutions, and Ironies.”

Lyndon, D. The Sea Ranch Audio Walking Tour: Architecture,
Landscape, Intentions. 2015. Photo by Jim Alinder.








Clockwise from top left: Ohlson Recreation Center, photo by Bill Oxford. The Sea Ranch sheep grazing, photo by Bianca Rose. The Grotto, photo by Susan Higgins. Sea Ranch Bluff Trail, photo by Alexis Rose. Condominium One, photo by Jim Alinder. Sea Ranch Condo courtyard, photo by Jim Alinder. Black Oystercatcher in Flight, photo by Craig Tooley. Interior Hedgerow, photo by Bill Oxford.