San Diego Historical Resources Board could reconsider the late Joseph Yamada's role in the Jerome and Joyce Shaw/Lloyd Ruocco house on Rue de Roark at a future date.
The city of San Diego says the Lloyd and Raymona Swortwood ‘spec house’ ‘continues to embody the distinctive characteristics of the Contemporary style.’
The Muirlands home is named after landscape architect Joseph Yamada and his wife, civic activist Elizabeth Yamada, who lived there from 1973 until their deaths in 2020.
Given that one of the three La Jolla properties that went before the San Diego Historical Resources Board on Sept. 22 for potential historic designation belonged to a landscape architect, the role of landscape architecture was a key item of discussion about it during the board’s meeting.