Between Earth and Heaven: The Architecture of John Lautner
Los Angeles
Hammer Museum
Now through October 12
Walking into the Hammer galleries for Between Earth and Heaven: The Architecture of John Lautner is like entering a forest of vertiginous dimensions. Exhibition curators Frank Escher and Nicholas Olsberg explore the mid-century architect's interest in visceral experience, nature, and complex structural systems by incorporating hundreds of plans and drawings into a diverse topography of fiberboard displays, light boxes, large-scale wooden models, landscape and construction photographs, and digital animations of building facades and interiors. Celebrated homes like the iconic octagonal 1960 Chemosphere in LA and Palm Springs' 1968 Elrod House are given in-depth explorations, illuminating the legacy of Lautner's futuristic vision. His influence on contemporary innovators can be detected in Frank Gehry's outlandish digital geometry and Norman Foster's eco-conscious forms. - Leila Khastoo
The exhibition is accompanied by a comprehensive catalogue, published by Rizzoli International Publications, in association with the Hammer Musem.
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