The Ruskin Place Townhouse, designed by architect Alexander Gorlin, was conceived as a critique to the prevailing architectural style in Seaside and, at the same time, as an expression of that town's distinctive language. Accomplished abstraction is the opposite of post-Victorian cottage style and classicism of the other houses in Ruskin Place, a pedestrian square near downtown Seaside. Even if local laws were abided by, however a more effective sarcasm emerges, aimed towards so much detailed typological rules, like the insertion of balconies…[Arkinetia]