Between Earth and Heaven: The Architecture of John Lautner
One of the visionary architects of the twentieth century, John Lautner designed dramatically innovative buildings with a rare sensitivity to site, vista, and structure. Accompanying a full-scale exhibition on Lautner at Los Angeles’s Hammer Museum, this is the first publication to comprehensively explore his work, including his apprenticeship with Frank Lloyd Wright and the cultural and geographical context of Los Angeles, through an intensive examination of the archives of the John Lautner...
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One of the visionary architects of the twentieth century, John Lautner designed dramatically innovative buildings with a rare sensitivity to site, vista, and structure. Accompanying a full-scale exhibition on Lautner at Los Angeles’s Hammer Museum, this is the first publication to comprehensively explore his work, including his apprenticeship with Frank Lloyd Wright and the cultural and geographical context of Los Angeles, through an intensive examination of the archives of the John Lautner Foundation. Although Lautner’s dramatic houses are well-known, this is the first time his work has been seriously examined by scholars. Historian Nicholas Olsberg contributes an analysis of Lautner’s evolution, providing social and cultural context. Architect Frank Escher covers the relationship between his experiments in structure and poetics of space, and Jean-Louis Cohen discusses Lautner’s place in new design tendencies.This richly illustrated monograph includes previously unpublished sketches, drawings, construction images, and Lautner’s own photographs to unveil the evolution, originality, and logic of his designs, focusing on the atmospheres and vistas they establish and the connections to landscape and sensory fluidity that mark their innovative spatial arguments.
Foreword Ann Philbin Philbin, Ann 6Acknowledgments Nicholas Olsberg Olsberg, Nicholas Frank Escher Escher, Frank 8PerspectiveJohn Lautner's Luxuriant Tectonics Jean-Louis Cohen Cohen, Jean-Louis 12GroundingIdea of the Real Nicholas Olsberg Olsberg, Nicholas 36BuildingShaping Awareness Nicholas Olsberg Olsberg, Nicholas 70ContinuityStructuring Space Frank Escher Escher, Frank 126Selected Biography 228Selected Projects 229Illustration Credits 230Index 231Notes on the Authors 234
