Lautner

#189: John Lautner’s Walstrom House (Beverly Glen)

#189: John Lautner’s Walstrom House (Beverly Glen)

January 23, 2024
John Lautner's Walstrom House from 1969 is a deceptively simple treehouse of a home. It's just 1400 square feet and almost entirely made of wood and glass – worlds away from his big-budget concrete experiments of the '60s, more in line with his compact wood-clad homes from the '40s. But there is plenty of Lautner's spatial inventiveness here, and a sculptural quality to every part of the building.
#163: John Lautner – Harvey House (Hollywood Hills)

#163: John Lautner – Harvey House (Hollywood Hills)

July 16, 2023
John Lautner's Harvey House from 1950 represented the first time that this idiosyncratic architect could carry out his unique ideas about spatial geometry and texture with a sizable budget. In the late 1990s it was purchased by Kelly Lynch & Mitch Glazer, and lovingly restored by several of Lautner's most trusted collaborators.
#107: John Lautner House (Silver Lake)

#107: John Lautner House (Silver Lake)

July 15, 2022
John Lautner's Silver Lake home, designed in 1939, was the first house the master architect designed by himself. It's a vitally important building for architecture history. It's also a beautifully put together home, packing a ton of creative details and spatial ideas into a very small footprint.
Roadtrip: Etan Does Idyllwild

Roadtrip: Etan Does Idyllwild

May 20, 2022
For my 40th birthday, I visited the NRHP-listed landmarks in the SoCal mountain town of Idyllwild: a livable yellow UFO, a John Lautner cabin made of tree trunks and zig-zagging glass, a wooded State Park and a modernist tram station at 8,500 feet.