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Between Earth and Heaven: The Architecture of John Lautner |  | Authors: Nicholas Olsberg, Jean-Louis Cohen, Frank Escher
Publisher: Rizzoli
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 273231
Media: Hardcover
Edition: First Published
Pages: 234
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.7
Dimensions (in): 11.3 x 10.3 x 1.1
ISBN: 0847830144
Dewey Decimal Number: 720.92
EAN: 9780847830145
ASIN: 0847830144
Publication Date: April 22, 2008
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Product Description
One of the visionary architects of the twentieth century, John Lautner designed dramatically innovative buildings with a rare sensitivity to site, vista, and structure. Accompanying a full-scale exhibition on Lautner at Los Angeles’s Hammer Museum, this is the first publication to comprehensively explore his work, including his apprenticeship with Frank Lloyd Wright and the cultural and geographical context of Los Angeles, through an intensive examination of the archives of the John Lautner Foundation. Although Lautner’s dramatic houses are well-known, this is the first time his work has been seriously examined by scholars. Historian Nicholas Olsberg contributes an analysis of Lautner’s evolution, providing social and cultural context. Architect Frank Escher covers the relationship between his experiments in structure and poetics of space, and Jean-Louis Cohen discusses Lautner’s place in new design tendencies.This richly illustrated monograph includes previously unpublished sketches, drawings, construction images, and Lautner’s own photographs to unveil the evolution, originality, and logic of his designs, focusing on the atmospheres and vistas they establish and the connections to landscape and sensory fluidity that mark their innovative spatial arguments.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Between Earth and Heaven: The Architecture of John Lautner August 14, 2008
J. Bechtel
3 out of 12 found this review helpful
Between Earth and Heaven is a fabulous book about John Lautner and his work. The book arrived just a few days after I ordered it ... I couldn't believe I got it so fast.
NOT the comprehensive book I've been waiting for... for years April 27, 2008
G. Beekman
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
This book is beautiful, it has lots of pictures and drawings I had never seen before. I have been waiting for a really great Lautner book to be published because all the others show 'pretty' pictures, but I have never been able to get a true sense of the buildings (I am an architect). i was hoping this book would have the pretty pictures and more overall drawings. This book is a great complement to the 'pretty picture books' as it has images that are not regularly seen in the other Lautner books..... I just feel this book doesn't truly satisfy my need for information and clarification on these buildings.
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