Todd Pitman
Garden Villa
Garden Villas were Ruocco's answer to affordable unstandardized builder houses using standardized components. He intended to create high quality architecture that was affordable to all. His earliest efforts in this direction were showcased in 1935 in Balboa Park with the Modeltown exhibit but his mature effort for "Garden Villa" came in 1953 with the Balboa Park Home Show. This house utilized prefabricated pieces within a steel frame based on an eight foot grid. Floor plans