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The New York TimesMay 5, 2026
Donlyn Lyndon, Last Surviving Creator of The Sea Ranch, Dies at 90
Penelope Green
“Place, and its nurture,” Mr. Lyndon and Mr. Allen wrote in the revised edition of “The Place of Houses,” published in 2000, “remains an essential breeding ground for civic virtue. The sustenance of our democratic republic, we believe, demands it.”
April 23, 2026
Donlyn Lyndon, Architect
Sam Whiting
"My dad was a poet architect, or a thinker architect," said his son Andrew, a fine arts painter. "He thought about base and light and how it would work relative to the landscape. He was a great architect of windows."
April 19, 2026
Another Encounter with the Cheshire Cat
David Heymann
"The full volume of interior space, up to the undersides of the sloping, board-clad roof planes, is a blank canvas for elaborate plastic invention. In many Moore buildings, a stairway, freed of convention, initiates a chain reaction of innovations. Here, that stair is a precipitous, three-story, pyramidal slice."
March 11, 2025
The Historic Buildings Destroyed By Southern California's Devastating Fires (video)
Jeffrey Brown
February 6, 2025
A Stool, a Bread Knife, and Books: How the Keepers of L.A.'s Most Famous Homes Chose What to Save During the Fires
Diana Budds
The house is still standing, fortunately. "We just escaped through the skin of our teeth," Keim says. However, Keim's experience has shifted how he's planning to manage the house in the future. This mostly has to do with the landscape around it. Two of the exterior passageways adjacent to the house are covered in vines, which will soon be removed. A wisteria plant over the entrance will likely have to go, too. He also plans to rethink the front [garden] staircase, which is made from salvaged railroad ties that are highly flammable since they are treated with creosote...
February 2, 2025
'So Much Has Been Lost': An Architect's Lament for Los Angeles
Michael Webb
Kevin Keim had just returned to his home in Austin, Texas, when he heard of the Palisades fire ripping through the northwestern tip of Los Angeles. As director of the Charles Moore Foundation, he is responsible for the idiosyncratic house that Moore designed in 1973 for the late Leland Burns, a UCLA professor of urban planning. Without hesitation, Keim took the next flight back to LA to protect his baby...
January 31, 2025
The Hidden Histories Lost in the Los Angeles Fires
Alex Ross
The Burns House itself is a tour de force of hidden history. A warm-hued stucco exterior gives way to an almost Victorian profusion of vaulted ceilings, twisting staircases, and wraparound bookshelves. Keim said "It would have been heartbreaking to lose all of this. But every loss is heartbreaking—I don't want to make this house sound more important than any other. We just try to save what we can."
January 16, 2025
The Rogue Architectural Preservationist Putting Out Fires in the Palisades
Adriane Quinlan
But the pinkish wedge of a home that Charles Moore designed for the professor and urban planner Leland “Lee” Burns in 1973 has so far survived, thanks in part to Kevin Keim.
USModernist RadioJanuary 20, 2025
Kevin Keim, Director
George Smart & Tom Guild
Kevin Keim discusses Charles Moore's legacy in anticipation of the Centennial of the architect's birth.
Winter 2018
Ascending Interest
Kevin Keim
Kevin Keim describes the restoration of Charles Moore's Selby Avenue Condo in Los Angeles.
Modern MagazineFall 2014
Tiny Triumph
Kevin Keim
Kevin Keim describes the creation of the Cube Loft at the Moore/Andersson Compound in Austin.
