Not all of Lautner's works are tony, space-age bachelor pads of gangsters and porn stars in movies such as The Big Lebowski and Charlie's Angels, which Sheats-Goldstein is. A July 23 tour of four Lautner houses will offer a rare glimpse of the Jacobsen House, a modest two-bedroom. Raised by erudite but middle-class Midwesterners, Lautner wanted his buildings to be for the public, not just for playboys.
But most of the commercial buildings he built, including Googie, are gone. Architectural admirers have lovingly refurbished the Desert Hot Springs Motel and renamed it the Lautner Motel, but it will cost you a few hundred to spend a night in this remote Dwell wet dream.
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Then again, the architect himself didn't know what it was really like to live in one of his buildings. Though the first L.A. home he built was for himself in Silver Lake, he lived there for only a few years. Peterson says it was one of the disappointments of her father's life that he never again built a roof over his own head.
Inspired by climate and geography, every 20th-century architect who made L.A. the fountain of American modernism — from Greene & Greene, to Wright, to Schindler, to Neutra — has sought to bring the outside inside. For Lautner, the elements were his foundation. Towering old-growth pines, ancient volcanic rocks and the sweetwater seas of Superior gave him a deep but not sentimental respect for Earth's creativity.
Like Lautner, I've spent years walking the woods of northern Michigan, soaking in its grand vistas and contemplative solitude. I recognized that feeling of light, that spirit of natural imagination, the first time I saw Lautner's designs. Last summer, Peterson gave me a tour of Midgaard. Watching an eagle soar across the lake from its back porch, I wondered what Lautner used to think when he stood on the deck of Sheats-Goldstein. Could he see past the neon and smog to Santa Catalina and the Pacific?
Lautner called his approach "real architecture." "It seems to me, the Artist's and Philosopher's lifetime work is a search for Reality," he wrote. "Reality is my lifetime search to produce timeless, joy-giving, life-giving free spaces to fulfill ideally man's needs — physical and spiritual, i.e., total."
JOHN LAUTNER EVENTS THIS MONTH
John Lautner exhibit at LACMA, July 16-24: includes an archival model and photographs of the Goldstein Office
Stayin’ Alive: The Legacy of John Lautner, at LACMA, July 16, 2 p.m.: panel of architects, critics and preservationists, followed by birthday reception (4:30 p.m.)
Artist Dan Graham discusses Lautner, at LACMA, July 17, 4 p.m.
100th-birthday home tour, July 23, 10 a.m.: Offers behind-the-scenes access to four Lautner-designed L.A. homes
Gala celebrating Lautner’s 100th birthday, at Lautner’s Harpel Residence, July 24, 6 p.m.: to benefit the protection of Lautner’s buildings
An evening of Lautner-related films, at the Egyptian Theatre, July 30, 7 p.m.
For more information visit johnlautner.org.
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A beautiful and accurate article that shows the connection between beloved Midgaard and all projects thereafter. A wonderful tribute to a larger than life, yet close to the earth Architect.Tina Peterson
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