A FIRST-OF-ITS-KIND BOOK
AN EXPLORATION OF CALIFORNIA CENTRAL VALLEY ARCHITECTURE THROUGH EIGHT CASE STUDY HOUSES
“ Maria Ogrydziak casts an artist ’ s eye on the landscapes of California ’ s Central Valley , on the compact towns and endless fields , the winding streams and encircling hills , spread out under a brilliant sky , which she so deeply loves .” — Tim Culvahouse , FAIA , editor of arcCA ( Architecture California )
“ Maria ’ s projects yield continual inventions , each a way of capturing aspects of the Great Valley and the many places and landscapes that it harbors . The forms and spaces are richly configured , allowing life to resonate within them and echo out into the surroundings .” — Donlyn Lyndon , FAIA , renowned architect , educator , and author of The Sea Ranch : Fifty Years of Architecture , Landscape , Place , and Community on the Northern California Coast
“ This elegant book conveys how Maria Ogrydziak ’ s architecture has offered discerning homeowners the option of a crisp modernism keyed to the big skies , shade trees , agricultural engineering and long horizons of the Californian interior ’ s hot , enigmatic expanse . In this it offers one answer to the puzzle of how to build in a region largely overlooked by Californian architecture culture .” — Simon Sadler , author of Archigram : Architecture without Architecture and The Situationist City
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Maria Ogrydziak is an expert in California Central Valley architecture , with 400 projects built in the region . Her firm designs attainable , extraordinary spaces for everyday lives . A civic leader and architect , she served as president of the AIA Central Valley Chapter and was the founder of the annual Central Valley Region Architecture Festival . She is a graduate of MIT and has taught at MIT , Stanford , and UC Davis . She lives in Davis , California , in her self-designed artist loft .
Join Maria Ogrydziak in conversation with architecture writer Sam Lubell Tuesday , October 5 , 12-1 pm as part of AIACV Experience Architecture Find Framing the Valley event details at aiacv . org / exparch /