Marcel Sedletzky

Marcel Sedletzky (March 29, 1923 – 1995) was an American architect who lived in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California.

Early life

During World War II, he and his mother were drafted into the Germany army and worked behind the front lines.

Eventually, in 1946, he found himself at the Technical University in Graz, Austria, where he pursued an interest in engineering and industrial design, with an emphasis on architecture. He engaged in at least one workshop with the Swiss-born architect of reinforced concrete buildings, Le Corbusier.

The Jackson House, was built in 1962 in Carmel Meadows, overlooking Point Lobos, drawing inspiration from the architectural principles of both Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright.

In 1967 Sedletzky designed the 1500 square-foot Gansa House, with an unusual parabolic roof. The home was commissioned by Alex Gansa, a physician, as a weekend retreat for his family. To protect the house from storms, Sedletzky and a structural engineer decided to pour concrete columns in the sand.

He purchased a lot on the beach to build a house for himself and his wife, Casa Concha, in a Mexican fishing village of Bahía Kino, Sonora, Mexico. Upon retiring from teaching in 1992, they permanently moved there.

Sedletzky died in 1995.