In the 1950s and 1960s, home builders like Joseph Eichler and the Alexander Construction Company made Modernism accessible to the masses—building post-and-beam tract homes with exuberant, often exaggerated rooflines in Southern and Northern California. Mid-century modern homes can be found elsewhere, like Sarasota, Florida; Austin, Texas; Durham, North Carolina; and Australia. Designed by one of the owners of the design firm Building Lab and his landscape designer wife, the landscape features a sloping front yard that connects it with the surrounding hills. They also got back to the home’s roots by adding an entry courtyard patio surrounded by horizontal wood fencing. Among its sustainable features are a Toro drip irrigation system, salvaged fencing, and a permeable gravel driveway. The colorful plant palette includes aeonium ‘Blushing Beauty’, yellow New Zealand flax, orange kangaroo paw, and blue chalk sticks senecio.
