Austrian-born architect , one of the undisputed mavericks of the early to mid-twentieth century, spent a decade working for Frank Lloyd Wright before he landed in , where he merged the rigorous geometries of early European modernism with California’s relaxed lifestyle.

In the mid-1940s, Dr. Richard Lechner and his wife commissioned the innovative architect to build a home in a wooded glade in the foothills of L.A.’s . All but hidden behind a zigzagging wall draped with bougainvillea and hugging its sloped site, the house is now lauded as one of the modernist mandarin’s last masterpieces and reflects his experimental chutzpah and his long-standing commitment to unassuming materials, spatial rhythms, and integration with natural surroundings.

According to the , architect Paul Sterling Hoag

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