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Jan 20, 2019 · Initially, the site had been deemed “unbuildable” by several architects and contractors due to the steep 45-degree downhill slope. Lautner’s solution to the house was to embed a 5-foot-thick, 27-foot high reinforced concrete post into the hill to support a floating octagonal pod.
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During his time as an estimator here he would meet John...
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Apr 29, 2015 · Throughout his career, Lautner harnessed the idea and the vision to create exciting and dramatic structures. Never losing sight of his client’s individualities and utilizing the elite of domestic construction, Lautner designed and built his way into architectural immortality.
Jul 16, 2024 · Here, technical innovation draws a surface related to the steep topography, opening up to the landscape thanks to a pool that defines a void in front of the living room. The house generally gathers curvilinear walls that envelop the space, creating a continuous exchange between inside and outside.
Jul 31, 2008 · The show picks up steam with a design for the 1948 Sheats Apartments, Lautner’s first built foray into what would become an obsession with circular structures. A tentative early sketch shows...
Jul 15, 2022 · Two decades before he landed an octagonal spaceship on top of a pylon at his famous Chemosphere house, architect John Lautner designed a small home for his family to live in, on the downhill side of Micheltorena Street in Silver Lake. It was the first house that Lautner designed by himself.
At Taliesin, Lautner purposely used his poor drafting ability to deflect the rendering tasks that apprentices were typically assigned during their tenure with Wright. By consciously focusing on ideas instead of on line weights, Lautner hoped to avoid the lures of mimesis and “paper architecture.”.
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Apr 10, 2008 · Raymond Kappe suggested that Lautner’s curved forms in concrete opened architecture to “a new dimension.” The idea that a building can suggest temporal flux within its permanence, and stillness...
