SURFING THE SKYLINE

SURFING THE SKYLINE

Interesting people build interesting houses,” says architectural designer Wallace Cunningham, who, over the past 29 years, has designed a series of remarkably expressive houses that feature overlapping geometries, soaring pyramidal roofs and crescent-shaped...
ATTUNED TO THE VIEW

ATTUNED TO THE VIEW

This article originally appeared in the April 2008 issue of Architectural Digest. You could argue that Don Cooksey saved himself the cost of a Georgia O’Keeffe painting when he bought a property in La Jolla, California, facing a magnificently fissured bluff...
PACIFIC PANORAMA

PACIFIC PANORAMA

If residences are portraits of their owners, as architectural designer Wallace E. Cunningham suggests, then a house situated on a bluff overlooking the Pacific—its roof appearing to rise effortlessly toward infinity—begins with art. One of the owners, the wife, is a...
A House That is Ready to Fly

A House That is Ready to Fly

“The concept came while flying around in Pascal’s helicopter, which he describes as his magic carpet,” says architect Wallace Cunningham. “The concept came while flying around in Pascal’s helicopter, which he describes as his magic carpet,” says architect Wallace...