- Edificionado is an Oakland-based real estate brokerage specializing in architecturally and historically significant homes. The listings we feature here are those that have recently caught our eye due to their provenance or exceptional state of preservation. We select them without regard to size, price, or location and in general we are not the listing broker, so we have no stake in their being posted here. As we are based in Oakland, most of the homes will be in the East Bay, though we may throw one in from elsewhere in the Bay Area from time to time. If you would like to visit any of these homes, or receive a personalized list of properties more tailored to your specific requirements and tastes please contact Christian Olson at colson@edificionado.com or at 510 686 3343.
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Category Archives: Architect-Designed
872 Arlington, Berkeley
This charming First Bay Region residence is an early and fairly understated design by Julia Morgan. The exterior is an interesting combination of Prairie and Shingle styles with what looks like a bit of Tudor half timbering for good measure. … Continue reading
1815 Manzanita, Oakland
Today we feature a truly impressive Third Bay Region residence by one of our favorite local design-builders, Martin Davis. Davis’ homes tend to be highly vertical with particularly expressive massing and interesting geometries, and this example does not disappoint. It … Continue reading
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171 San Marcos, San Francisco
Our featured home today is across the bridge in San Francisco but it was designed by two UC Berkeley alumni so we don’t feel like we have strayed too far from our stated purpose. Irving and Gertrude Morrow are perhaps … Continue reading
Posted in Architect-Designed, Art Moderne, Morrow & Morrow
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4536 Hillsborough, Castro Valley
This intriguing Castro Valley mid-century was designed by local San Francisco architect and kung fu grandmaster Henry Luck. Luck grew up in both China and California and then went on to study architecture at Berkeley. He is probably best known … Continue reading
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1655 Arrowhead, Oakland
Today we feature a great Oakland Hills A-frame/dome hybrid attributed to Robert Blunk of Blunk Associates. One of the downsides of the standard A-frame form is that there is generally only room for windows on the ends of the structure. … Continue reading
Posted in A-Frame, Architect-Designed, Geodesic Dome, Mid-Century
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3101 Gibbons, Alameda
After the immense success of the Homes of Tomorrow exhibition at the Chicago World’s Fair in 1933, General Electric decided to replicate the program across the country by cooperating with local utilities and architects to create GE Model Homes that … Continue reading
8 Sunnyside, Orinda
Our featured home today is an extremely late design by perennial Bay Region favorite Beverley David Thorne. Thorne would move away from his trademark steel structures as the years passed and tastes changed. Here he uses large glulam beams to … Continue reading
3256 Garfield, Alameda
Today we feature another beautifully preserved Victorian. This one is the long-time home of Alameda Museum curator George Gunn and it shows. It is a lovely raised basement Queen Anne cottage designed by respected local architect Charles Shaner in 1894 … Continue reading
Posted in Architect-Designed, Charles Shaner, Queen Anne, Victorian
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6201 Westwood, Oakland
This thoughtfully composed Oakland Hills new modern residence is the work of local architect Robert Swatt of Swatt Miers Architects. Swatt has been designing residences in the East Bay for over a quarter of a century and the purity of … Continue reading
Posted in Architect-Designed, New Modern, Robert Swatt
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6948 Norfolk, Berkeley
Our featured home today is a showy new modern residence designed by Karman Ng formerly of Cantilever Design. Ng designed the home for himself and used it as a launch pad for his career as an independent practitioner. As such … Continue reading
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