Construction underway on historic residence of John Lautner

Measuring a compact 1,244 square feet, this early Lautner hillside residence features two bedrooms, two bathrooms, built-in furniture and bookcases, and wrap-around windows to maintain the all-important connection to nature.

Lautner wrote of the project "This was my first try at architecture on my own after six years' apprentice training with Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin East and West. Naturally I felt inadequate on leaving the architectural genius of the last three or four hundred years. But I had to try, and found that in a modest way I could conceive and construct a satisfying work of architecture. I knew that only practice would improve my ability. Frank Lloyd Wright approved this house, and on publication, architectural critic Henry Russell Hitchcock called it the 'best house by an architect under 30 in the US.' It still took 30 years to get established."

After generating a 3D point cloud and working with @egarchla throughout the design phase of the sensitive restoration, we are excited to be moving forward into construction.