In his Case Study House, Ralph Rapson may have mispredicted just how the mechanical revolution would impact everyday life.

In the language of Francisco Varela, Evan Thompson, and Eleanor Rosch (the Embodied Mind), we learn to lay down the path beneath our feet by walking.

He and his partner, Stephanie Holzen, a former stuntwoman, and their 5-month-old son, Shep, recently moved to a rental in a Victorian house in Crested Butte, Colo.