About Joe Fletcher
Born and raised in London, UK, Joe Fletcher studied painting at Chelsea College of Art & Design, receiving his BA in Fine Art, and later attended London’s Goldsmiths University, graduating with a MFA in photography. In 2003, he left soggy London for foggy San Francisco. His photos have since been featured in magazines such as Wallpaper, Architectural Digest and San Francisco, displaying his aesthetic and his appreciation for the art of architecture and the beauty of light. Fletcher is also the photographer of two books Ranch Houses, Living the California Dream (Rizzoli) and Cliff May and the Modern Ranch House (Rizzoli). He now lives with his wife and two mischievous dachshund mutts in Oakland, CA
LOCATION: Oakland, California
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Located two blocks from the Pacific Ocean in Hermosa Beach, this single-family residence is in one of the safest and most sought after cities in Los Angeles. The property is a new build on a pedestrian-only street, where a tight-knit neighborhood shares the block as if it were one big front yard.
Project: Moore House Restoration Architects: Woods + Dangaran Location: Los Angeles, California Area: 1,700 SF Photo Credits: Joe Fletcher Text by Woods + Dangaran New life is given to this 1965 Craig Ellwood house with an exacting exterior restoration and an interior renovation, all while maintaining the integrity of the original design. Needing significant work,
Dawnridge House began by re-envisioning the site as a reawakened fragment of the natural environment. The project presents a powerful departure from the otherwise increasingly urban character …
Located steps from the Pacific Ocean in the Portuguese Beach Club neighborhood of Rancho Palos Verdes, this project is a complete renovation and rebuild of a 1951 vintage beach home.
Burnt Cedar Residence is a full-time beach house for a car passionate family of four situated across from Burnt Cedar Beach in Incline Village, Nevada on the north shore of Lake Tahoe.
Our design team, upon initial visits to the site, aimed to construct a pavilion style house that both made whole the scarred terrain and benefited from the unusually flat land. These conditions encouraged our designers to push the house deeper into the hillside ….
As one of the Central Coast’s leading architecture and interior design firms, Studio Schicketanz is sought after for its sensitive approach to the landscape, sustainable architecture techniques, and sophisticated yet comfortable interiors.
The building site had a significant influence on the design for the Lookout House. Layered with intense geologic history at the base of a three-million-year-old volcano, the site is a north-facing 20-degree slope with equal parts refuge and prospect at 6,300 feet above mean sea level.
