Architect: John Lautner
Protected: Geography of Hope: John Lautner
24 October 2022
Protected: Geography of Hope: John Lautner24 October 2022
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Alternative Histories: Charles Holland Architects on John Lautner
8 July 2019
Alternative Histories: Charles Holland Architects on John Lautner8 July 2019
Strawberry Gothic Forever draws on a number of architectural fantasies. Primarily, it can be seen as an anglicised version of Lautner’s house for Edgar Ewing, a circular structure intended for the Los Angeles hills but now embedded in the chalk face of the North Downs. But it also contains other… Read More
John Lautner: house and studio for Edgar Ewing
28 August 2015
John Lautner: house and studio for Edgar Ewing28 August 2015
On presenting himself as a potential apprentice at Taliesin to Frank Lloyd Wright Jr., Lautner heard no objection except the sly comment that he would be ‘too big for the rooms’. Everything about his approach to visualising a design speaks to the distance from which this towering figure saw the… Read More
The Ultimate Climes of John Lautner (1986)
4 May 2020
The Ultimate Climes of John Lautner (1986)4 May 2020
– Esther McCoy
Extracted, with permission, from Piecing Together Los Angeles: An Esther McCoy Reader, published by East of Borneo Books © 2012. The publication is available at East of Borneo.
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