The Oakland Hills house was originally designed and built in 1954 by noted Berkeley architect Roger Lee who built a good many stout, disciplined and well-proportioned modernist homes in the Bay area during the 1950’s and 1960’s. This house is built on a steep hillside site in the Oakland hills looking west across downtown Oakland, the Bay Bridge and out to the full panorama of San Francisco and the surrounding waters. During the preceding fifty years, the house became quite neglected and suffered a good deal of water and insect damage requiring a tearing back to the bare frame. Our challenge was to restore, rebuild and transform the house within the design character, material palette, and logic of the original.

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