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as an early influence—although he didn't know
that at first.
"When I was very young, my family lived in
an Ar ts and Crafts house in Berkeley designed
by Maybeck," he recalls. "Later, when I was
studying architecture, a professor showed a
slide of a Maybeck living room and I immediate-
ly recognized it as the one I lived in. I had
dreams about that house until I was 30. It defi-
nitely informs my work."
"There is some really fine architecture here on
the Monterey Peninsula. What we're doing here
is as good as what's being done anywhere—and
it's specific to the region," Miller maintains. That's
certainly true of Pelican House. The site was a
challenging one: a 3.5-acre hunk of coastal granite
at water's edge just south of Point Lobos.
"The stone had to excavated to make way
(top) The home's entryway was painstakingly cut from the ultra-hard coast granite boulders the structure rests on. (bottom)
Unobstructed ocean views are a hallmark. "In this house, you're not only viewing the coast—you're part of it," Eric Miller says.
