Lutah Maria Riggs: Vedanta Temple (Montecito, Calif.)

Riggs designed the main temple building, as well as the gate house, shrine room, carport, and pavilion on the Vedanta grounds. Riggs studied the architectural forms of China, Japan, and India before building the temple, and applied classic forms to the shape of the building. The temple building is situated in such a way as to provide views south towards the Pacific Ocean, and north to the Santa Ynez mountains.

Lutah Maria Riggs, Architect

Lutah Maria Riggs papers, Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University of California, Santa Barbara.

1955

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