Building a Home that Loves You - Rucker, Doug
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Responding to the return in popularity of Post-and-Beam architecture, Doug Rucker, having enjoyed a 54-year career as a Malibu house-architect, uses his own work as illustrations to discuss the philosophy of what is now called Mid-Century architecture. The name Post-and-Beam originally derived from a new way of seeing truth in architecture; posts rise from the foundation between wall-to-wall glass that grasps beams that support planks that hold the planks of the ceiling and roof. Seeing the truthfulness in the construction of a building became one way buildings could freely give love to…mehr

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Responding to the return in popularity of Post-and-Beam architecture, Doug Rucker, having enjoyed a 54-year career as a Malibu house-architect, uses his own work as illustrations to discuss the philosophy of what is now called Mid-Century architecture. The name Post-and-Beam originally derived from a new way of seeing truth in architecture; posts rise from the foundation between wall-to-wall glass that grasps beams that support planks that hold the planks of the ceiling and roof. Seeing the truthfulness in the construction of a building became one way buildings could freely give love to people. There are other ways as well. Ease of movement through the house, harmony in the house and surrounding yourself only with things you love are other ways of Building a Home that Loves You.
Autorenporträt
Transitions; Reflections; Building a Home that Loves You: A Post and Beam Architectural Philosophy; Maude; The 3 in 1 Book; Tales of the Worthwhile Dog; Bonk! and What's Next; Groundwork; Over-Simplified Engineering; Further Adventures; Crandalicus; The Philosophic Adventures of Father Kokomo; Early Stories; Cranthology; Moving Through; A Book About Everyday Stuff; Where's The Cookies At?; The Delphian Talks; Personal Journey; Off the Wall; Book of Words; Trail By Fire: a Tale of Two Houses; Harold and the Acid Sea of Reality Bio Born in Elmhurst, a suburb of Chicago, Doug was educated at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana. In January of 1950 he obtained his Bachelor of Science degree in the school of Architecture and in Denver became a draftsman in a small architectural firm. Moving through Tucson to San Diego he worked a year for a larger firm doing schools while weekends he swam in the ocean and dove for abalone. In Altadena he married and obtained his California architectural license and pursued his architectural goals as a draftsman in Pasadena and Glendale. Moving to Santa Monica he continued drafting in a small architectural firm in Brentwood Village where he was eventually upgraded to "designer". In 1955 he built his first house in Santa Monica Canyon and immediately sold it, then built a second house and sold that while moving into the first one that had quickly come up for sale. In the following Santa Monica Canyon years his wife gave birth to three marvelous daughters and by January of 1958 he opened his first permanent office as an architect operating solely in Malibu. In 1966 he moved his family into a new Malibu architect's dream house overlooking Surfrider Beach. Five years later it burned to the ground and it took him two more years to build a more fire-resistant house over the same foundations. The new house remains and has been noted in Gebhardt and Winter's, Los Angeles Guide to Architecture. Doug's spent most of his career doing new houses and additions in Malibu and local areas, but also single jobs in Kauai, Greece, Denver, Fallbrook, Barstow, Long Beach, and eight projects in Santa Barbara. In 1980 he was divorced from his first wife and married Marge Lewi-Rucker who had four kids of her own. All are grown and deeply into their own lives. Marge has since deceased and Doug now lives content in Malibu on a landscaped acre of property in a house of his own design. Retired from architecture he brings a special passion to writing and photographic digital art.