Conner & Perry Architects is revamping the Sheats-Goldstein Residence in Los Angeles, designed by John Lautner in 1962. (Joe Fletcher) He bought the Sheats home in 1972 and hired Lautner to expand and ...

Bette Jane Cohen’s documentary “The Spirit in Architecture: John Lautner” helped birth a renaissance in interest in Lautner. Cohen passed away on Oct. 19. It is easy to forget that there was a time ...

A Long Beach home designed by modernist architect John Lautner has hit the market for $3.4 million a year after it last sold. The Alexander House, a ranch style on a nearly two-third-acre lot in the ...

In the new issue of VQR, the Virginia Quarterly Review, Los Angeles journalist Adam Baer (with photographer Elizabeth Daniels) explores his own and Hollywood's draw to LA architecture, especially the ...

Directed by Bette Jane Cohen, this 1990 documentary examines the work of architect John Lautner (1911-1994), drawing on footage from his apprenticeship with Frank Lloyd Wright and interviews with ...

Working with the iconic architect to renovate one of his creations was transformative—not only to the structure but to the clients as well. As a part of our 25th-anniversary celebration, we’re ...

Bette Jane Cohen was a fledgling filmmaker and student of architecture at SCI-Arc when she happened to tour a house designed by John Lautner. Cohen realized that both the man and his architecture were ...

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