{"id":836,"date":"2011-07-17T14:41:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-17T21:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2011\/07\/happy-100th-to-john-lautner.html"},"modified":"2011-07-17T14:41:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-17T21:41:00","slug":"happy-100th-to-john-lautner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2011\/07\/happy-100th-to-john-lautner.html","title":{"rendered":"Happy 100th to John Lautner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THIS weekend would been the 100th birthday of the man who may be my favorite architect &#8212; he was voted runner up, just below Neutra, in this blog&#8217;s Favorite California Modernist poll not long ago.<\/p>\n<table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-CJlMfjBckiM\/TiNk_SJsSfI\/AAAAAAAABJo\/a-bYTn3BIcA\/s1600\/Chemosphere.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-CJlMfjBckiM\/TiNk_SJsSfI\/AAAAAAAABJo\/a-bYTn3BIcA\/s320\/Chemosphere.jpg\" width=\"271\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Lautner&#8217;s Chemosphere house, above the trees<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Not long after wild-man publisher Benedikt Taschen restored the Hollywood Hills-sited Chemosphere House, which had fallen into very serious disrepair, I wrote a lengthy piece on both the octagonal structure and on the ornery architect. <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/2005\/apr\/07\/home\/la-hm-taschen7apr07\">Here<\/a> it is.<\/p>\n<p>I spoke to a number of people for the story, including architect Frank Escher, who helped remake the place, the realtor who had struggled to sell it, original resident Leonard Malin,\u00a0and design historian Alan Hess, who coined the spot-on term &#8220;organic modernist&#8221; to describe Lautner.<\/p>\n<p>Happy birthday to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnlautner.org\/Malin.html\">John Lautner<\/a>, a man who disliked Los Angeles but did a great deal to make it a more interesting place.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/2011\/jul\/23\/home\/la-hm-john-lautner-houses-20110723\">Here<\/a> is a wonderful piece by Alan Hess from Saturday&#8217;s LAT Home section on Lautner and LA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THIS weekend would been the 100th birthday of the man who may be my favorite architect &#8212; he was voted runner up, just below Neutra, in this blog&#8217;s Favorite California Modernist poll not long ago. Lautner&#8217;s Chemosphere house, above the trees Not long after wild-man publisher Benedikt Taschen restored the Hollywood Hills-sited Chemosphere House, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[52,167,30,29],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-836","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-architecture","7":"category-john-lautner","8":"category-los-angeles","9":"category-west-coast","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}