Architect Eric Owen Moss Wants to Rent You His Santa Monica Home for $24,500 a Month

You can now take up temporary residence in a funky Santa Monica home that one of L.A.’s most esteemed architects designed and built for himself and his two children.

Dubbed the A+M House, the three-year-old abode is the out-of-the-box brainchild of Eric Owen Moss, a longtime architect and professor known for his daring use of form. His own home, just a short stroll to the beach, certainly follows in that mold, with the tall and slender, asymmetrical yellow-green three-story structure ascending from a gravity-defying guitar-shaped base to a rectangular rooftop deck looking out over the Pacific Ocean. Being offered fully furnished with a lease price of $24,500 a month, the abode is listed by Frank Langen at Compass.

The building’s somewhat futuristic appearance is complemented by ultra-modern construction methods. The wall system is CNC (computer numerical control)-milled, meaning that machines controlled by computers milled the materials used. The structure also includes the first known use of polyurea over wood construction in residential architecture—materials that you’re more likely to see in aerospace and industrial design.

The layout revolves around a central atrium entered on the ground floor and crisscrossed by bridges at every level above. At the rear of the ground floor is the eat-in kitchen, with concrete floors, curving walls, and a built-in dining table. A glass-panel door leads out to the backyard. On the second floor is a small symposium space with banquette seating. Nearby is a flexible sleeping space and a spacious home theater with cushioned benches and a TV screen that drops out of the ceiling. Going up one more floor, the two bedrooms each have their own seating areas and ensuite bathrooms. A plywood staircase connects each floor, eventually leading to the rooftop deck.

Moss, an L.A. native, is a distinguished figure in the architecture field. He’s taught at universities including Harvard, Yale, and Columbia, and he was the director of the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) from 2002 to 2015. Back in 1999, he was given the Academy Award in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and, over the last several decades, has transformed the architectural landscape of L.A.’s Culver City.

While he primarily works on commercial commissions, Moss has dabbled in residential design over the years. His very first such project, built in 1991 and called Constellation 167, hit the market a couple of years back for $12 million. The Brentwood abode, which spans four bedrooms and five bathrooms over almost 5,500 square feet, remains for sale at just under $11 million.

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