Rare Mid-Century Custom Home by Renown California Modern Architect Warren Callister Los Altos, CA October 30, 2009 For some, Mid-Century architecture, or California Modern as it is sometimes called, represents an astonishing sensibility, a time when architects endeavored to design homes with open floor plans that blurred the lines between interior and exterior environments. They brought the outside inside. A home created by Charles Warren Callister, one of that eras greatest practitioners, is for sale in Los Altos Hills, California. One of just three homes designed by Callister on the Peninsula, this handcrafted house has been updated with drawings from Warren Callister himself. The owners have kept the home in pristine condition. Located on a large flat lot at the end of a cul-de-sac, the property has panoramic views of San Francisco, Windy Hill, local vineyards and the Bay. It was commissioned in the 60's by Mr. and Mrs. Robert Rudy. The Rudys hired Callister to design their home after seeing him profiled in numerous publications including House Beautiful in February, 1962. At around the same time, another publication, House & Home, called Callister "perhaps the best known of Northern California's residential architects" and held up his work as something to be emulated nationwide - which it was. Before beginning a project, Callister would visit the site, claim to simply listen deeply, and let the architecture arise. "You have to find the architecture," he said. "You don't come to it preconceived." In this case, the home includes a dramatic and expressive use of redwood, and incorporates a number of Japanese design elements from the Arts and Crafts tradition. Among the architect's finest work are the Mills College Chapel in Oakland and the Christian Science Church in Belvedere, which was designed to suggest the sailboats in the nearby harbor. "That to me is one of the real jewels of Bay Area architecture of any era," architect Henrik Bull says, "just wonderful, poe
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