Ray Kappe’s Last design
Ray Kappe, FAIA, was an internationally recognized architect, urban planner and educator. His body of work spanning from 1953 to present is considered to be an extension of the early Southern California master architects Frank Lloyd Wright, Rudolph Schindler, and Richard Neutra. Kappe’s residential architecture has been characterized as ‘the apotheosis of the California House.’
In 1972, after serving for three years as professor and founding chairman of the Department of Architecture at California Polytechnic University of Pomona, Kappe resigned. With a group of faculty members and students, he founded the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), now considered one of the top architecture schools in the country. During his years in practice, Kappe explored modular systems, prefabrication and passive energy, completing more than 100 family homes as well as condominium and commercial buildings. Responding to a question about the 10 most important principles that helped make him a successful architect, planner and educator, Kappe said, “Always be willing to explore, experiment and invent... Maintain good moral and social values, and do not accept the status quo.”
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