1908-1983

ENTER
S.B.R.
 Projects in San Diego
• Alpine- 1 House
• Borrego-1 House
• City Heights-1 House
• Clairemont-1 Building
• College Area-1 House
• Cuyamaca-1 House
• Del Mar-3 Houses
• La Jolla-13 Houses and Buildings
• La Mesa-1 Building
• Loma Porta-1 House
• Mission Bay-1 House
• Mission Hills-2 Houses
• Mt. Helix-2 Houses
• Ocean Beach-1 House
• Oceanside-1 House
• Old Town-1 House
• Pacific Beach-2 Houses
• Point Loma-25 Houses including several of hi
• Poway-1 House
• Ramona-1 House
• San Diego-3 Houses
• San Diego County Estates-1 House
• Solana Beach-2 Houses
• University City-1 House
• Unknown
Alpine

• Jerome Lipetzky Residence-1965

Clairemont

• Jerome Lipetzky
Residence-1965

South Clairemont
Community Center-1966
Cuyamaca

Custom Home on North Park

 Del Mar

• Helen Esling Residence

1954
 La Jolla

• African Methodist Episcopal Alma Skinner-1949

Church-1947
 • Catherine James
Residence-1953

• Nicholas Van Dorn Residence-

Addition 1968
Joyce Schmock Residence-1953
J. Hall Hood Residence-1955
La Mesa

• Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Palk

Residence-Addition-1955
Mission Bay

Mission Bay Aquatic Control Center-1960

Mission Hills

Bravo & Schwartz Law Offices-1982

Mission Hills

Bravo & Schwartz Law Offices-1982

Mt. Helix

Mr. and Mrs. Paul Engstrand Vintage Photo done by

Residence-1964 John Waggaman
Old Town

Bryan Worthington Residence-1968

Pacific Beach

Dan Dickey Residence-1958

ZLAC Rowing Club Residence-1961

Point Loma

• Mr. and Mrs. Richards second,

third, and fourth homes in this
town.
 John Hartley’s photograph of Mr.
and Mrs. Joachim Liebmann’s
1959 Home
Brooke and Frank Lo Peste Residence
Ramona

Betty Meador and Mel Kettner (original house)

San Diego

Balboa Park Golf Course Building

Mr. and Mrs. T.R. Newsom
Residence-1955
Morley Field Tennis Center-1975
San Diego County Estates

Weinberg Residence-1978
Photograph is unknown
Solana Beach

Mr. and Mrs. A.L. and Winetta Childs

Residence-1952
Photo by William Aplin

Herschell Larrick’s Residence

University City

All Saints Lutheran Church-1964

Unknown Dates and Locations

Admiral Hord Residence 1952

Grange Residence 1974 Oceanside

Keogh Residence-1960
J. Spencer Lake, Architect AIA remodeled
Loft Residence-Rancho Santa Fe
Morrison Residence Peterson Residence circa
1973
Artwork
The Beginning

Mr. Richards pitiqued the

interest of an architect by the
name of Frank Lloyd Wright.

His rug work impressed Mr.

Wright to the point of inviting
him to join his Taliesin
Fellowship
Taliesin Group

The Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture was formally

initiated in 1932 when twenty-three apprentices came to live
and learn at Taliesin.

The first twenty-three apprentices who formed the Taliesin

Fellowship in 1932 and other pioneers who joined them in the early
1930's included some remarkably talented men and women.

Mr. Richards, at the age of 26, he May 1934 and September

1935,
1935 worked along side his time’s most promising architects
including Edgar Kaufmann Jr., Gene Masselink, and Bill
Bernoudy.
Comparison

Many who know Frank Lloyd Wright knows that he didn’t do any
projects in San Diego County himself. But it is obvious who his
followers are by the resemblance of his work incorporated into their
designs. A ghost-like presence of the great Architect before them
After the Fellowship

Mr. Richards arrived in San Diego in 1938 and drafted

into the Navy which is the known military group in the
area today. He met his wife, Jane soon after, married in
1944 and had two sons.
Earlier Sketches
 Inspiration

Frank Lloyd Wright, Antoni Gaudi and Louis Sullivan helped Architects such
as Sim Bruce Richards, Loch Crane, Frederick Liebhardt, Kendrick Bangs
Kellogg, and James Hubbell embrace nature as their inspiration not only in
materials and form, but it citing sustainability, flexibility, and humanism.
 Quotes

“Gates opening into new spaces, walls folding away to reveal more and more
—these keys of my design.”
 Quotes

“Gates opening into new spaces, walls folding away to reveal more and more
—these keys of my design.”
Work Cited

http://www.taliesin.edu/pages/history.html

http://www.modernsandiego.com/SimBruceRichards.html

Nature In Architecture: the work of sim bruce richards by Cox, Maurine

and John L., The San Diego Museum of Natural History 1984.