Accustomed to the rigors of the New Mexico desert, Antonie Predock must feel very much at home on the beaches of California. His architecture, of a graphic and tectonic character, has been reduced here to a skeleton in which the gaps are filled only with glass.

If massive walls were the predominant image in the Fine Arts Center in Tempe, Arizona (see Arquitectura Viva 15), this Venice Beach house opens up almost completely at both ends to let the coastal breeze and the view of the Pacific through…[+]