Architect Donald Olsen drew inspiration from the Bauhaus as he designed this clean-lined midcentury set on a wooded Berkeley hillside.

The secret of The Kip House, the 1950s home designed by Donald Olsen that inspires contemporary architects. Here, Bauhaus-inspired architecture meets the trees, light,...

At 775 San Diego Road, directly across from John Hinkel Park, the Kip House is one of the remarkable early residential works of Berkeley modernist Donald Olsen. Design...

Tucked into the slope of Berkeley's Thousand Oaks neighborhood, sits a house that has changed hands only once in more than 70 years. Now, 775 San Diego Road, known to...

The 1950s were heady times in Berkeley. World War II was over, building materials were no longer rationed, and new enthusiasm for Modernist architecture was taking hol...

In the 1950s, long before Apple, Google, and Facebook turned Silicon Valley into a veritable tech mecca, the Bay Area was home to a pioneering physicist named Arthur F...