Al Boeke

Alfred Anton Boeke (November 20, 1922 – November 8, 2011) was an American architect and developer. Boeke created and developed Sea Ranch, California, a 10-mile-long planned coastal community of 1,700 homes in Sonoma County, California. Boeke advocated integration of the homes with the surrounding landscape, environmental preservation and low density development while creating Sea Ranch and his other planned communities. Boeke recruited some of the best-known 20th-century American architects to create Sea Ranch's wooden homes, which became well known in design and development circles.

Boeke was born to Alfred and Adah Harris Boeke in Denver, Colorado, on November 20, 1922. His family relocated to Altadena, California, where Boeke was raised. Boeke earned a bachelor's degree in architecture from the University of Southern California in 1948. He worked for Richard Neutra, an influential, Los Angeles-based modernist architect during his early career.

Boeke was hired by Castle & Cooke, real estate company owned by the Dole Food Company, in 1959. Under Castle & Cooke, Boeke served as the development director of Mililani, Hawai'i, planned community of approximately 28,000 residents on Oahu.

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