Zahn House by John Lautner. Complete overview and walkthrough
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- čas přidán 29. 03. 2024
- The Zahn House is a very unusual house for John Lautner because it looks more like an example from the internationale style, than a design of organic architecture. Still it's also very typical for Lautner at the same time. Towering high on a hill side: it looks futurisitc an spectaculair. I made this video with own drawings and photo's provided by Tycho Saariste and J.R Kikkert. To preserve the legacy of John Lautner and to enjoy the beauty of his work!
Jop, once again you made a great work. Putting all your videos of Lautner together should be the best and more complete organic architecture archive. Soo grateful, as many others, of your time and effort.
totally agree!
Thank you. Yes, creating a complete archive of organic modernist architecture is what I want to achieve with this channel. Creating overviews of every house by Lautner and Wright. Each video is a lot of work, but love doing it, so I will go on. All the lovely positive comments also stimulate me to go on.
@@SuperJobbel I am sure that any editorial of architect content will love to have your work in a dvd attached to his best edition of organic architecture. That prove that your work is passionated and with no lucrative interest. and that tells a lot of you.... some day Taschen or any other good editorial will knock your door. You diserve it. Congratulations from México
@@elpezleta Thank you! I hope they will do knock on my door. Greetings from the Netherlands! :)
as someone who is qualified to know better, my opinion is that John Lautner is one of the most underrated architects of the 20th century; for his originality, his variety, and the ingenuity not only of his architecture but his engineering. N.b. the Bob Hope house may have been originally conceived by Lautner but cannot be listed among his works. James Goldstein may have demolished a Lautner master work to build an adolescent fantasy but Bob Hope imposed his pedestrian taste on an architectural master work before it could be realized.
John Lautner is my favorite architect but he extremely underrated because he is so little known. The reason why he so little known is that he committed his career completely to residential designs, had he designed more Public buildings like museums, schools, stations, churches etc. he would be more famous than now. Also none of his houses are open for public, therefore I started this channel: to bring more attention to his wonderful work.
Unknown and of course underrated house of J Lautner.. With this amazing layout, it would be my personal favorite after Wolf and Malin house .. Thanks to Mr Jop for his talent and effort to present this extraordinary house
Great to read that you liked the video. It's really an interesting house, not in my pesonal top 10 favorites but still a very good design. John Lautner never made a lesser design. All his houses are masterpieces.
Nice design and…. Nice video
Thank you!
I wonder how many movie studios have the owners of Lautner homes on speed-dial. His homes are all so sexy.
Yes, his houses are very dramatic and all therefore very suitable for movies. Many houses by Lautner are already used in movies and I made a video with a compilation of them: czcams.com/video/vaOfBlSk3AY/video.html
Thank you so much for these lovely video essays.
You're welcome. Thank you for your comment. I love making these videos: so more of them will come up.
Fantastic house and video presentation. Thanks so much!
You're welcome. Great that you liked the video. More videos will come up soon.
very interesting house
When I first looked at a picture of this house, I didn't think I would like it, but thanks to your explanation, I like it very much.
You're welcome! Great that you liked the video. All houses by Lautner are surpisingly brilliant even though they sometimes don't look great from the outside.
@@SuperJobbel Did Lautner design any furniture, like Frank Lloyd Wright did for some of his houses?
Very interesting home. Another well done video. Great job!! I don't think Lautner can do wrong.
Thank you. Great that you liked the video. Indeed Lautner can't do wrong: he keeps surprising me with each new design. Even his less known houses are still great.
very enjoyable design 😎
Another charming house by Lautner. Thanks. p.s. Have you ever thought about doing a video of a LLoyd Wright (Frank's son) building?
I agree, good suggestion. There's not enough info on the Taggart House. Plenty of exterior pics available, but the interior ones always show the same areas, and no floor plans. I think Junior outdid Daddy on that one.
It is now on the lux rental market in L.A. @$15K per month. Appears to be very livable. It is what Americans look for these days. Taggaart house is a masterpiece.
I'm also familiar with Lloyd Wright jr his designs but I haven't really researched them. A fascinating design that I maybe gonna capture in a video is the Beverly Johnson House by junior. This house looks really great it's owned by movie director David Lynch. I will make a video about it some day : but first finishing the serie about Lautner: there are still 9 videos of his houses coming up.
Thanks for your comment: I have never heard of the Taggart House, but I shall check it out. I really like Lloyd Wright jr. but I'm not very familiar with most of his designs.
Thank you for another excellent video!
Great that you liked the video. Your positive comment stimulates me to make more videos.
Fascinating video as always.
Thank you! More videos will come up soon. In two weeks I will upload a new video about the Sheats appartments.
I loved the tour thank you very much
You're welcome. More tours by Lautner and by other architects will come up soon.
I love this house there's so many good things about it. it would be a house where you could entertain family and friends but to me the only regret is very little space to park the cars of your family and friends.
Ehm I don't know if there's little parking space: you can park two cars under the house and then two/three cars in front of the house. So I guess at least 5 cars.... It depends how many people you invite for your party, otherwise people can park their car next to the street below the hill. Indeed it's a lovely house, personally not my favorite but still great.
Nice house, and very informative video. Thank you.
You're welcome! I like making this video. In two weeks the next video will be uploaded.
Amazing house and great video, as usual!
Thank you, your comment stimulates me to make more videos. More content will come up soon.
I like these smaller houses that, but for the location, could be the size of a home for a middle class family. I wish more architects would take on these types of projects (though i can also understand that the economics of architecture make that a difficult proposition). As always, thanks for these videos.
You're welcome. Indeed we need more architectural masterpieces in middle class residential housing. Architectural artwork should be available for people with an average income, not only for rich people.
Beautiful and very clever house. Unfortunately, horribly furnished
Yes, the house needs some new furniture. But I dont think it's a lot of work: it can be changed very easily.
Hello Jop, I'm so happy you take the time to make such interesting videos and post them. I've enjoyed all your presentations. Please keep up the wonderful work. ❤
Thank you. Really great to read your possitive reaction and all the other lovely comments! :) Yes I keep up the work, more videos will come up soon.
Another enlightening example, and presentation, of John Lautner’s wonderful stylish builds. Thx man
Great that you liked the video! I like making these overviews: making them as complete and detailed as possible. Next video will be about the Sheats Appartments.
As always magnificant work Jop. Great Lautner example in terms of use of a relatively small lot. Thanks
Graag gedaan. Ik ben alweer bezig aan de volgende video: die gaat over The Sheats Apartments building.
Super kan niet wachten. Waar haal je de tijd vandaan.
@@JeanPierreVanderWeerd Ja de tijd is wel lastig. Het liefste had ik iedere 2 weken 1 nieuwe video gemaakt, maar ik werk ook nog 4 dagen in het onderwijs en heb ook nog een zoontje van 5: dus ik heb soms niet genoeg tijd voor alle research, tekeningen en montage. 1 keer in de 4 weken kan ik waarschijnlijk een video uploaden. Dus over 14 dagen komt de video online.
Awesome video and clearly presented as always thank you so much keep doing it
Great that you liked the video. Your comment stimulates me to make more content. New videos will come up soon.
Thank you!
That central staircase really makes the house. It's like a flying saucer levitating over the hill site and entered over a ladder from below. Even though the Zahn house looks completely different, I feel that design makes it a spiritual relative to the Chemosphere. Another fantastical (and fantastic) space by Lautner. These videos of yours are real treasures, my friend! If I were teaching architecture I would use them as prime teaching material.
For me personally the staircase is also the best thing of the house. Indeed just like the Chemosphere this house floats and looks futuristic. The Garcia House is also a similar concept. Thank you for your comments, I like reading them and they stimulate me to make more content. I do know that sometimes these videos are being used for lectures and teachings at universities: so what you're not the only one who has thought about used them for education. Till next video!
@@SuperJobbel Your chanel is a perfect example for what YT/ the Internet can be at its best: people who love what they're doing sharing their passion with whomever is interested, purely for the love of the thing, purely voluntarily. And then we can talk about, exchange knowledge and ideas (and maybe decide to give a little money to a person who enriched our lives,) and are all a little better for it. Thank YOU, Jopp!
@@ghostbeetle2950 Thank you for your wonderfull comment. I like sharing my passion with people all over the world and talking to other people who have the same passion. I love to read all the lovely comments from enthousiastic people. This is indeed what youtube is for: bringing people together! More videos come up soon.
Thank you !!!
Great Job once again! I've been curious about the Zahn House.
I'm surprised Lautner didn't come up with a Dumbwaiter so people wouldn't have to carry things up and down those stairs every time.
Maybe the house has a dumbwaiter that comes out in the storage space. I don't know for sure: but the kitchen is above the storage space. I can be made very easily.
@@SuperJobbel That would make sense.
I love your vids. Very nice small house. This one is new to me.
Great that you liked the video, indeed this is one of the lesser known designs by Lautner.
Looks like a sky boat.
Thank you for this video. I had not seen color pictures of this house before, and had thought less of it from the outside. But inside the house looks marvelous as Lautner always accomplished. Its visually relaxing. A nice place to live
From the outside it's one of my least favorite houses by Lautner. But the interior is great, the thing I like the most is the entrance with the staircase.
The downstairs fireplace is unfortunately angled towards the glass entrance. I understand this is done for symmetry, but this means one can not enjoy the fire in any way, because standing in front of it would've been standing too close and standing or sitting comfortably in front of it would place the person inside the entrance glass wall. I can not forgive architects sacrificing function on the altar of symmetry. Or is the glass walls of the entrance a later addition? Without the glass it makes perfect sense. With the glass, the fireplace should've been turned towards the sitting area under the balcony. The fire stack should obviously have been on the same place as in the upper story, but there's nothing that constricts the shape of the downstairs fireplace, or at the absolutely least, the opening of it.
Interesting comment. I don't know why the fireplace is placed like this, I haven't visited this house myself so I don't know how the fireplace is placed and how much space there is between the front door and fireplace. I do know for sure that the glass front door was always there from the beginning. In California the temperatures are always high so a fireplace is more for atmosphere than for heating: so it might be possible that the fireplace is more for bringing atmosperical light in the entrance/staircase and to illuminate the terrace.
Nice House.
Jeff
Where can I get this? This Aluminium you speak of. The channel is extremely gratifying for me to have my geek time. Thank you.
Okay...haha...great that you love the channel! Let all the architecture geeks united and enjoy the beauty! (I don't where they got those aluminium panels... They were made already in 1957)
OpenSpace just put up a new episode on the Pearlman Cabin designed by John Lautner. The Pearlman family owns it and the daughter tells the story.
Oh thanks! great..I shall check it out. Thank you!
I wonder why he made so many 2 bedroom houses? Perhaps that was the thing then?
I don't know for sure: but I think that he made a lot of designs for childless couples. So 1 bedroom for the couple and 1 for a guest. That's also why each bedroom has its own bathroom: in order that the guest doesn't interfere with the privacy of the couple. This house originaly was also for a couple with no children
Still though, Lautner did also design a lot of family homes with many bedrooms
Vow many Lautner’s houses have you identify?
I have planned to make 55 videos of the best designs by Lautner. In total John Lautner made more than 100 different designs. But those 55 are truly masterpieces, at the moment I've made 45 videos so there are still 10 videos coming up this year. Hopefully at the end of year the Lautner retrospective is completed. Still there are a few brilliant designs by Lautner that can't be captured in a video because there only a few photos available.
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You'd think someone who lives in such a designer house would also be into designer furniture and not keep the place so junky
Such a clever house ruined by such hideous interiors- I wish owners would let architects start (not leveling off the terrain) and finish the work (furniture and appliances suited to the talent). Design is a team effort- it's not useful to have a great pitcher if the infielders can't throw out the base runner.
Yes I agree with you: most Frank Lloyd Wright houses are designed from start to finish FLW himself. Including the furniture that was also designed by Wright.
Between the terrible furniture styles, the bland white walls, the ugly jaundiced lighting, the various carpet choices, those prison-lockdown-looking shutters: Just yuck. I do like the architecture/shape of the house (especially the first floor patio and entry), and the rooms/layout/flow. However, visually, about 50% bad decor, and 50% poor choices for surface treatments (and perhaps even some bad photography) make this one of the least attractive Lautner houses I have seen. I could definitely see a complete overhaul of the interior fixing all of the faults I find with it though. There's definitely nothing wrong with the architecture.
Thanks for your comment! Yes the house can use some remodeling and some things in the interior need to change. For me personally the entrance with the staircase is the most beautiful part of the house. The steel panels are not everybodies favorite...indeed some people consider it prison like... But on hot days it can be very practical. Interesting to speculate you can change the interior and improve the house!