Okay, I found this gem of a YouTube channel, about John Lautner’s houses.
The narrator and creator of those videos is a Dutch guy with talent, drawing floor plans and foundations and doing guided tours of the famous architect’s output.
It is fantastic, full of facts and smart assumptions. I knew 90% of it and still learned great things. For instance, I didn’t know that Silvertop was the first house with an infinity pool in the world.
I hadn’t really realized that John Lautner really was into architectural challenges, choosing hard sites to build the most amazing structures.
And how much he broke the box. We live in square boxes and pretty much none of his work resembles anything boxy. You change an angle from 90 to 110 degrees and your brain breathes. So dope.
Always pulling people to Nature, and using technology to alleviate issues and not for the sake of said technology.
That’s a design stance that is quite timeless and that I can follow.
I want non-boxy homes for all. Period.
(I visited the Sheats-Goldstein house a couple times, it’s mine now; The Wolff house too. And Arango, you will be mine at some point as well, I didn’t make the rules)