Architect: John Lautner

The Ultimate Climes of John Lautner

The Ultimate Climes of John Lautner

Esther McCoy

Extracted, with permission, from Piecing Together Los Angeles: An Esther McCoy Reader, published by East of Borneo Books © 2012. The publication is available at East of Borneo.

AH: Charles Holland Architects on John Lautner

AH: Charles Holland Architects on John Lautner

Strawberry Gothic Forever draws on a number of architectural fantasies. Primarily, it can be seen as an anglicised version of Lautner’s house for Edgar Ewing, a circular structure intended for the Los Angeles hills but now embedded in the chalk face of the North Downs. But it also contains other… Read More