Between Earth and Heaven : The Architecture of John Lautner
Shoot On Site: Architecture in Film
A Special Film Series Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive
Friday, September 12 through Sunday, September 21 Billy Wilder Theater
When cultural theorist Sigfried Gideon wrote in 1929 that, "only film can make the new architecture intelligible," he was highlighting the special affinity between the relatively new technology of cinema and the technology-inspired modernist architectural designs of Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret. Since then, the practical and theoretical relationship between architecture and film-both mediums of space, time and light-has grown ever richer and more intimate, forming a circle of influence and interrogation through production design, film grammar and technology. While discussions of film and architecture often focus on set design, the UCLA Film & Television Archive, in association with the Hammer Museum, presents a series of films that find directors engaging with architects on their own turf. Both in concert and in conflict with the architect's intentions, these encounters make our private and public built environments "intelligible" as spaces of alienation, liberation, dread and salvation.
The series will include an eclectic mix of films from the avant-garde to Hollywood, including Les Mysteres du Chateau de Des (1929, Man Ray), Architecture d'aujourd'hui (1930-1, Pierre Chanel), Five (1951, Arch Obler), The Trial (1962, Orson Welles) and Contempt(1963, Jean-Luc Godard).
Henry Coombes
Last Day of Exhibition
Ryan Trecartin
First Day of Exhibition
Houseguest: Jennifer Bornstein Selects from the Grunwald Collection
Last Day of Exhibition
Hammer Screenings
Infinite Space: The Architecture of John Lautner
This sneak preview of a new documentary feature film traces the lifelong quest of visionary genius John Lautner to create “architecture that has no beginning and no end.” It is the story of brilliance and of a complicated life—and the most sensual architecture of the 20th century. Renowned architectural filmmaker Murray Grigor explores Lautner’s dramatic spaces as Lautner himself provides the commentary, speaking with insight and wit in recordings culled from archival sources. Includes comments from Frank Gehry, original clients, owners and builders, Frank Escher, and Julius Shulman.
Murray Grigor–writer/director, Anna Thomas + Sara Sackner–producers.
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Between Earth and Heaven : The Architecture of John Lautner
Symposium: Against Reason
John Lautner and Postwar Architecture
Presented by the Getty Research Institute and the Hammer Museum, architects, engineers and architectural historians will explore the distinctive work of Los Angeles architect John Lautner. A panel of Lautner’s original clients and colleagues will also discuss the challenges of creating and inhabiting buildings that reshaped the image of modernist architecture in the late 20th century. Confirmed participants include Stanford Anderson, Helena Arahuete, Alan Hess, Sylvia Lavin, Neil Denari, Hernán Díaz Alonso, Marc Treib, Sandy Isenstadt and more.
Reservations required; please call 310-440-7300 or visit www.getty.edu.
Friday, September 19, TBD
Hammer Museum, Billy Wilder Theater
Tour of John Lautner exhibition – TBD
Contemporary Anti-Rationalist Architects: A Conversation – TBD
Saturday, September 20, 10am-5pm and 8pm
The Getty Center, Museum Lecture Hall
Symposium 10am – 5pm
Free-Form Living: A Conversation with the Clients and Colleagues of John Lautner – 8pm
Between Earth and Heaven : The Architecture of John Lautner
Panel Discussion: Architecture and Seduction
Bachelor Pads and Sex Machines
The panel participants include Frank Escher (exhibition co-curator), Paulette Singley (Professor, Woodbury University School of Architecture), Renata Hejduk (Assistant Professor of Architectural History and Theory, School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Arizona State University College of Design), and Kazys Varnelis (NYC Columbia University). The panel will be moderated by Norman Millar (AIA, Director, Woodbury University School of Architecture).
Between Earth and Heaven : The Architecture of John Lautner
UCLA Extension Course
Between Architecture and Cinema
Offered in conjunction with the exhibition, this one day course is taught by Jon Yoder, Assistant Professor at the Syracuse University School of Architecture and PhD candidate in the UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design. His doctoral dissertation, “Widescreen Architecture: The Immersive Visuality of John Lautner,” takes the ocular-centric projects of the architect as a lens through which to focus on issues of experiential and projective vision.
Co-presented with the UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design.
To register please call 310-825-9971 or visit www.uclaextension.edu (course # U2746). Hammer Members receive a special discount.
Nathalie Djurberg
First Day of Exhibition