Site overview
The only San Francisco example of John Dinwiddie's residential work, the Roos House of 1938 is clearly inspired by early European Modernism; the rigorous cubic massing and horizontal ribbon windows are signatures of high modernist design. The use of vertical board and batten wood siding and white-painted window frames, however, places it within the Bay Area tradition. The design responds to the local environment spatially and formally: intertwined interior and exterior spaces, and a roof garden integrate the plan with the site, and canted double-height bay window, aimed at the Golden Gate Bridge, presents a distinctive feature, one that would later be much imitated.
