JOHN LAUTNER: - Triangle Modernist Houses

Follow-up critique of "The Los Angeles Twelve" exhibition and architects which included John Lautner discusses
what benefits might accrue if the group continued to meet to promote communication and growth in the Los Angeles
architectural community.
304. Fine, D. and D. Peck, L.A. Culture Quiz. Los Angeles Times, 1977(Jun 14): p. H14-15.
Lautner and his Chemosphere House are part of the quiz.
305. Gebhard, D. and R. Winter, A Guide to Architecture in Los Angeles & Southern California. 1977, Santa Barbara, CA:
Peregrine Smith.
Includes a Julius Shulman photo of the Reiner Residence (Silvertop) and a Leland Lee photo of the Elrod Residence
in Palm Springs and also lists the Sheats Apartments in Westwood, Familian House, Wolff House, Bell House, Carling
House, Malin House (Chemosphere), Lautner House, Mauer House, R. and H. Motors Showroom, Foster House, Rancho del
Valle, Elrod House, Hope House, and Alto Capistrano Headquarters.
306. Moore, C. and R.B. Oliver, Antithetical types - the drive-in and the recycled buildings. Architectural Record, 1977.
161(Apr): p. 128-9.
Includes an uncredited photo of John Lautner's Henry's Drive-In in Glendale.
307. Shulman, The Photography of Architecture and Design: Photographing Buildings, Interiors, and the Visual Arts. 1977,
New York: Whitney Library of Design. 238.
Covers and all interior photos by Julius Shulman. photo of Lautner's Malin Residence (Chemosphere).
308. Vils, U., 6-Acre Los Feliz Site: The Plot Thickens. Los Angeles Times, 1977(Jun 5): p. F1.
Article discusses ABC studio's development plans for a 6.2 acre site adjacent to the former Midtown School
designed by John Lautner for founder Ken Reiner.
1978 Work published in “12 Los Angeles Architects” resulting from the 1976 exhibition “The Los
Angeles 12” at the Pacific Design Center and Cal Poly Pomona. (see item 320. below).
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Aita Addition for Private Discotheque, Los Angeles, CA (unbuilt)
Pavilion for the Edward Dean Museum, Cherry Valley, CA (unbuilt)
309. An Ultimate Experience. Uniques, 1978(6, Summer): p. 64.
[Elrod Residence].
310. The Skylife. House & Garden, 1978. 150(Jun): p. 104-107.
Jordan Residence (with Shulman photos?).
311. Five Luxurious Houses, Building Up For Panoramic Ocean Views, in House & Garden, Building Guide, Winter 1978.
1978. p. 90-95.
Jordan Residence (with Shulman photos?).
312. Architects Slate Lecture Series. Los Angeles Times, 1978(Jan 15): p. H14.
Announces a series of lectures called "Twelve Architects/Twelve Months" to be inaugurated in the Knoll Showroom
at the Pacific Design Center Tuesday at 8:00 p.m. by a presentaion by John Lautner. Each following month for a year will
feature one of the architects who participated in the original 1976 Los Angeles Twelve Exhibition.
313. Vital Records: Deaths: Elizabeth Gillman Lautner [Obituary]. Los Angeles Times, 1978(Sep 18): p. B24.
314. Caudill, W.W., W.M. Pena, and P. Kennon, Architecture and You. 1978, New York: Whitney Library of Design. 176.
Includes Julius Shulman photos of Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum (3), Richard Neutra's Tremaine
Residence in Montecito (3), Kahala Hilton in Honolulu by Killingsworth, Brady & Associates (3), U.S. Navy Submarine
Training Base in San Diego by Ward Deems, Hagadone Newspapers Corporate Headquarters in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho by
Richard Nelson, a Thornton Ladd house in Pasadena, a Portland, Oregon fountain by landscape architect Larry Halprin,
Irving Gill's Dodge House in West Hollywood, Bernard Maybeck's Christian Science Church in Berkeley (3), the Lawrence