The Architecture of John Lautner by Alan Hess, Alan Weintraub (Photographer), John Lautner Hardcover - 276 pages (December 1999) Rizzoli ISBN: 0847822222 Check price and buy it at: amazon.com , amazon.co.uk

Customer Reviews
Lautner the master of panoramic windows, June 8, 2000
Reviewer: liochan from Lausanne, Switzerland
This book is really beautiful, the pictures are of great value. If the architecture can be said as to be a little "out of fashion" (I mean architecture of the fifties), it is anyway wonderful and inspiring to see such beautiful house. there is a lot of wonderful pictures of all the major houses build by lautner during his career. the only things that can be missed in this book is that there is no drawings but anyway, I really believe it's a good book.

A F.L. Wright Disciple Gets His Full Measure of Recognition, March 23, 2000
Reviewer: Edward Dunn from Silicon Valley in California
In the few months since I purchased this beautifully illustrated and impecabbly written monograph, John Lautner seems to have become Hollywood's favorite posthumous architect. This month's Vanity Fair features a screenwriter and his wife showcasing their restored Lautner masterwork while virtually every fashion spread in the same issue has one emaciated model or another posing, pouting and preening against a Lautner structure. This wonderful book travels Lautner's career arc from Wright disciple employing the tools and traits of the Master to the emergence of his own distinctive blend of wood, steel, concrete and location that, ultimately, bears little resemblance to his roots at Taliesin. As the text makes clear, Lautner shared Wright's prickly self-absorption and relentless -philosophizing. However, as the book wanders from one beautifully executed commission to the next, you end up endorsing his sense of self. Like the best of Wright, each structure seems to organically emerge from its site to envelop the owners in a beautifully scaled and very human dwelling. A worthy tribute to John Lautner's artistry and vision.

Lautner Illuminated, December 24, 1999
Reviewer: Carl Casey from Northern California
This picture book of Lautner's work provides a new perspective to the innovative work of the architect. Although many of the buildings are captured in other publications, the images are different than anything out there. Reproduction quality is excellent, as well as composition.

Only way to improve this one is with a virtual tour. It would also be nice if the industry acknowledged this superior architecture - this is art, not just a structure, and its truly American architecture. A provocative observation shows clearly the dominating forms are decidedly Unamerican - from Mediterranean, Spanish revivalism to Victorian - its all big time popular, and its all garbage compared to American, European, Asian modernism.

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