Lautner at the Hammer Museum  

Nicolai Ourousoff’s review of the 2008 exhibition at Los Angeles’ Hammer Museum (runs till October 12th).

Sadly, in their earnest effort to rehabilitate Lautner’s reputation, the curators have toned down the fantasy and sensuality that make his houses so intoxicating. The play of light, air, water and materials that is intrinsic to his best work is often lost amid an abundance of coolly abstract technical drawings. An impressive work of scholarship, this is nonetheless an oddly dry show that may bore the average viewer.

08.08.08 in museums 

Architect / protaganist: John Lautner Foundation

comment

Home Delivery  

MOMA in New York has a prefab exhibition on at the moment (July 20th to October 20th) that includes five specially erected houses in a vacant lot nearby. This website shows them off, and has a timeline of prefabs as well as installation videos.

07.08.08 in museums 

comment