If Adam and Eve and their descendents had continued to occupy the Garden of Eden, what kinds of houses would they have built? How would they have designed their dwellings to take advantage of a lush natural setting where the climate was ever temperate and healthful, and where all time was leisure time?
These questions are not entirely fanciful. As portrayed by sincere apostles and hired evangelists, California Living had be- come, by the end of the 19th century, synonymous with the American vision...