john lautner
John Lautner , residing and working in Los Angeles during much of his remarkable career, created designs known for their radical innovation with specific attention to materiality, space, and a consciousness of the natural environment.
Organized by SAH/SCC Board Member John Ellis, the day is themed Sacred Spaces, based on the new book of the same name by photographer Robert Berger, who is well know for documenting LAs aging moving houses in The Last Remaining Seats.
This day-long event, organized by SAH/SCC Executive Board members Sian Winship and John Berley, includes visits to some of the most cutting-edge new schools in Southern California.
All SAH/SCC members are invited to come to St. MIT sues Gehry Over Stata Center
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John Lautner was an influential American architect whose work in Southern California combined progressive engineering with humane design and dramatic space-age flair.
Hammer admission: A list accompanying an article in the July 13 Arts & Music section about the John Lautner exhibition at the Hammer Museum said admission was $5. Lautner knew that Los Angeles, with its unfettered dreamers, schemers, experimenters and individualists, was the only place his visionary architectural drawings could become realities.
I can always recognize a building by John Lautner, Architect, not because it looks like any other Lautner building, but because it looks like nothing that has ever stood before on the face of the Earth.
John Lautner died on Monday at the age of 83. He is survived by his wife, four children, six grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren - as well as by over a hundred buildings which will serve as his monument and as his testament to what a man can achieve on Earth.
If you have ever wondered where the Howard Roarks of the world are or longed for a real-life hero, if you want to feel the exaltation of admiration, then look up to the buildings of John Lautner.
The catalogue is published with the assistance of The Brotman Foundation of California and The Getty Foundation. This exhibition was organized in cooperation with The John Lautner Foundation and The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles.
Co-presented by the Hammer Museum and the Getty Research Institute, this two-day symposium includes a series of panels and presentations in which scholars, architects, engineers, and architectural historians employ John Lautner’s nonrational philosophy as a critical window onto postwar architecture in the United States and abroad.
Highlighted architecture will include John Lautner’s Chemosphere, which played a starring role in Body Double, Richard Neutra’s Lovell House, featured in L.A. Confidential, Adalberto Libera’s Casa Malaparte in Godard’s Contempt, and the Marin County Civic Center which was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and is a central location in GATTACA.
From spectacular bachelor pads to single-family gems, experience John Lautner’s architecture by visiting some of the city’s most remarkable residences.
Taking their cue from the portrayal of John Lautner’s houses in Hollywood films, our panel explores architecture’s ability to instigate sensory pleasure.
Yoder’s doctoral dissertation, ‘Widescreen Architecture: The Immersive Visuality of John Lautner,’ takes Lautner’s projects as lenses through which to focus on issues of experiential and projective vision.
His own profession, the AIA and the critics, who at first referred to him as “John Lautner, Designer” and withheld the title “architect,” eventually recognized him, too.
Read the April 10 LA Times article about Lautner, April 10 LA Times article about Lautner, and the article in the same issue on Lautner’s Harpel house.
New film: A part of the above exhibit is new photography, including new film of several Lautner buildings, by architectural filmmaker Murray Grigor.
In addition to the films incorporated into the exhibit, Grigor is producing a new documentary on Lautner, to be screened during the exhibition.
Watch this space for changes.
Tours: The Hammer museum, in cooperation with the MAK Center, is offering tours of Lautner homes.
Check out the ever-changing Picasa photo albums on Lautner’s work Picasa photo albums on Lautner’s work.
restored in 2001.
Lautner also designed a home on Malibu’s Carbon Beach which was owned by Courtney Cox.
Not until Robert Venturi’s 1972 book ” Learning from Las Vegas ” did the architectural mainstream even come close to validating Lautner’s logic.
a Norman Rockwell-era Saturday Evening Post asked of Silvertop, a Silver Lake Lautner residence seemingly poised to “zoom off to Mars.”
“Lautner used the space to connect to the landscape,” Escher said. and built a house for himself and his family.
Lautner built Chemosphere Chemosphere - a four-bedroom house shaped like an hexagonal flying saucer perched high atop a single hollow concrete column. He also designed the Carling House Carling House whose living room pivots on a turntable to transform itself into an outdoor patio overlooking the lights of the city.
Lautner buildings are wonders of engineering. He can also invent new building methods.
Lautner buildings are functional. Lautner once said he had to have “eight to ten good reasons to do anything.”
Lautner buildings are dramatic with bold geometry and exciting use of materials exciting use of materials.
His work has been the subject of numerous exhibitions in the United States and abroad.
Architectural critic Henry Russell Hitchcock called Lautner’s own home Lautner’s own home “the best house by an architect under 30 in the United States.” He considers concrete the most desirable material for his needs, because it allows for an infinite variety of spaces.
A lively panel of Lautner’s original clients and colleagues explore the challenges of creating and inhabiting buildings that reshaped the image of modernist architecture in the late 20th century.
Curated by historian Nicholas Olsberg and architect Frank Escher, Between Earth and Heaven will feature an exhibition design that is as visceral an experience as Lautner’s buildings themselves.
Four avant-garde architects discuss the challenge of adding a new addition to one of Lautner’s residential structures.
